Wow House: $2.25 Million Jamaica Plain Home Built for Paul Revere's Great Grandaughter

JAMAICA PLAIN, MA -- This nine bedroom home was built for Paul Revere's great granddaughter in 1896-1897 by noted architect Alexander Wadsworth Longfellow. Yes, he was Henry's brother. Billiard room? Check. Ironing room? Check. Offices? Check. Also this home has a gorgeous entry way where light pours into the wood floored rooms.

• Address: 7 Louders Ln, Boston, Massachusetts
• Price: $2,295,000
• Square Feet: 7825
• Bedrooms: 9
• Bathrooms: 4 Full and 1 Half Baths
• Built: 1897
• Features: This estate-scaled shingle style home with 7 bedrooms, 3.5 baths, dedicated billiard room, ironing room, and offices on three levels plus an Au Pair Suite with 1 bedroom and 1 bath on the lowest level. From the gorgeous floors to the fireplaces, pocket doors, multi-patterned multi-paned windows, to the 1879 cast iron stove and gorgeous built-ins throughout, this home is truly exquisite. On more than 1/2 an acre of rolling grounds, you'll find it hard to believe this estate-like home is just 3/4 mile to Jamaica Plain Center (dining, shopping, banking, yoga, cafes) and Jamaica Pond, 1.2 miles to Green St T Station (Orange Line), 3.5 miles to Longwood Medical Area, just 4 miles to Northeastern University, Museum of Fine Arts, MIT, and Boston University, and just 5 miles to Harvard University and Boston College. The property is just steps from the Arnold Arboretum. Own a piece of history AND enjoy the benefits of an impeccably maintained and preserved home with easy access to city life. --- As one of the earliest works from his solo practice, Longfellow brought together a robust Shingle Style exterior with a highly refined, Classically detailed interior in the fine house he designed for Henry Bainbridge Chapin and his wife, Susan Torrey Revere Chapin. Mr. Chapin was an investment banker, and had been an executive at the Boston & Albany Railroad. Susan Chapin was a great granddaughter of Paul Revere. Both were involved in the founding and development of Faulkner Hospital. --- This house is one of several estate-scaled Shingle Style dwellings that Longfellow designed in this period that feature similar plans, profiles, and architectural gestures. The term “well-preserved” is sometimes used euphemistically to describe a building that, while it has managed to keep its architectural character and has “good bones,” is still in need of substantial repairs and updating. In the case of 7 Louders Lane, this house represents the best of both worlds, with its fine and distinctive architectural features—windows, woodwork, floors, doors, finished surfaces, and even many plumbing and some kitchen fixtures—intact and in excellent condition.

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