A landmark Beacon Hill church has been sold, and early redevelopment plans call for a conversion to residential condos and office space.
Boston real estate investment firm Ad Meliora and Rhino Capital managing principal Michael Olson bought the Church of St. John the Evangelist and rectory at 33-35 Bowdoin St. for $4.5 million.
Two condos and an office for Ad Meliora are under consideration for the church, along with three or four condos in the rectory, according to Ad Meliora president Jan Steenbrugge.
"It's a historical building, so we're working together with the Massachusetts Historical Commission and Beacon Hill Commission to find something that everybody can be happy about," Steenbrugge said. "We want to keep the church space as open and authentic as possible, so that limits what we can do there. We are absolutely not planning any high-density project. We want to use the space without causing a nuisance in the neighborhood with parking issues."
Members of the Church of St. John the Evangelist and Cathedral Church of St. Paul on Tremont Street voted to merge in 2013, and the combined Episcopal congregation is using the Bowdoin Street church for a few more months under a lease deal with Ad Meliora while St. Paul's undergoes renovations.
The Church of St. John the Evangelist was designated a national historic landmark in 1966. It was built in 1831 for the Bowdoin Street Congregational Society, which was led by the Rev. Dr. Lyman Beecher, the paternal grandfather of American abolitionist and author Harriet Beecher Stowe. Parishioners of note have included poet T.S. Eliot and Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes.
The granite Gothic Revival-style church was designed by architect Solomon Willard, who also designed the Bunker Hill Monument in Charlestown. The adjacent four-story brick Greek Revival row house that serves as the rectory was built around 1843.
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