BEACON HILL
47 Chestnut Street
Townhouse

This aesthetically pleasing four-story Federal-style townhouse is on the sunny side of Chestnut Street, one of the most beautiful urban streets in the Northeast.  This street with a majority of single-family townhouses has an architectural harmony of scale and style and slopes gently down to Charles Street.  The current owners, since 1978, have extensively modernized the house with most of the renovations done in 1988.  All the plumbing and most of the electrical were replaced. There is computer wiring, multi-line telephone, and cable TV throughout.  There is three-zone central air conditioning, a new alarm, and a four-year old slate roof. Unlike most townhouses, the living room, dining room and kitchen are on the same floor, to make for easy living. All three primary living floors have luxuriously high ceilings. The garden level has a separate street entrance for a potential in-law or au-pair suite.  There is an elevator from the first to the second floor.

First Floor

• Entrance foyer

• Wonderful sunny living room with a "Wyatt window" has a chair-rail, built-in bookcases, and a fireplace with a marble mantel.

• Formal dining room with windows and French doors out to garden/deck has wainscoting and a fireplace with a decorative mantel.  Door to elevator.

• Wet bar/pantry has a sink, cabinets, and cupboards.

• Incredible eat-in kitchen with two window seats is wonderfully bright with a wall of windows and a large skylight. There is a beautiful patterned wood floor and a door to the outside space

Ground Floor

• Laundry room with storage

• Bedroom with closets has two windows overlooking garden

• Full bathroom

• Wine cellar, built “by the book” with shelving for 80 cases

• Stair down to furnace room and more storage

Second Floor

• Glorious library / master bedroom with a bay window has a wall of bookcases, a period-appropriate antique fireplace, and double closets

• Rear sitting room/bedroom with matching antique wood fireplace and door out to small deck

• Hall bathroom

Third Floor

• Front bedroom with second front adjoining bedroom has marble fireplace

• Rear bedroom has "Wyatt window", a fireplace and a door to bathroom

• Hall bathroom has a linen closet and a window

Fourth Floor

• Beautiful circular hall skylight

• Front storage room

• Front and rear bedrooms each with a dormer window

• Full bathroom

Square footage:   2770 (City records), 3600 (actual approximate measurement)

Taxes:   $21,754.06 (FY 2010 with residential exemption)

Price:    $3,900,000