Stately home getting sold on a cause
The sale of 40 Prescott St. in Brookline’s desirable Cottage Farm Historic District is notable for several reasons.
Available for the first time since the 1960s, the property is currently owned by the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts. It was most recently used as a residential program called Life Together, which pairs emerging youth leaders in their 20s with community-based nonprofits, schools and social justice movements throughout Brookline, Cambridge and Boston.
By putting the stately corner-lot residence in a coveted neighborhood for sale, the Diocese plans to deploy the proceeds into the communities it’s called to serve. A portion of the proceeds will go to the renovation of St. Mark’s rectory in Dorchester as well as the renovation of St. Luke’s Chapel in Roxbury.
Replete with period detail spanning across close to 5,600 square feet, the home serves up treasure after treasure. The new owners will enjoy Neoclassical columns and cornices along the main hallway, wavy glass pocket and French doors, leading to a light-filled 500-square-foot living room and sun porch on the southern end.
Each of the home’s six fireplaces is unique, including a pink-hued marble one in the smoking room, plus one incredible antique Cyrus Carpenter & Co. black cast iron stove, which once served to cook and heat the home and was made in Boston.
Hosting and entertaining is definitely in the cards at 40 Prescott, if only to honor its grand dining room with its coffered ceiling, mahogany burl woodwork, and bay of leaded-glass windows.
The seven-bedroom, 4.5-bath property is the perfect canvas for a historic restoration with plenty of opportunities for a modern touch.
For more information about the estate, contact Melony Swasey and Scott Goldsmith with Unlimited Sotheby’s International Realty.