The Tudor, at 34 1/2 Beacon Street in Beacon Hill, is a nine-story condominium building with 17 residences, completed in 1887 as an apartment hotel and converted to condominiums in 1999. It stands at the corner of Joy Street, directly across from Boston Common.
Architect S. J. F. Thayer designed The Tudor in the Queen Anne style on the former site of the Frederic Tudor house. A Romanesque sandstone base carries five stories that pair Boston bowfronts with Queen Anne oriel windows, topped by two partial-mansard stories with dormers. The building rose far above the early 19th-century houses around it, and the public outcry that followed led to measures protecting views of the State House and to an 1899 law limiting building heights nearby. The Family Service Association of Greater Boston bought the building as its headquarters in 1957, and it became condominiums in 1999.
Residences are generous for Beacon Hill. City assessing records show most homes at about 2,200 to 3,000 square feet, with two to four bedrooms. Homes feature hardwood floors and fireplaces, and many look out over the Common and toward the Charles River. A ground-level residence has its own entrance and a private patio.
The Tudor is a full-service building with a concierge and an elevator. Each residence comes with at least one valet garage parking space.
Park Street station on the Red and Green Lines is at the edge of the Common, a few minutes' walk away, and the State House is a short walk east along Beacon Street. Charles Street, the Public Garden, and Back Bay are a pleasant walk west. The Claflin is another condominium building on Beacon Street nearby.
The Tudor remains one of Boston's most exclusive boutique full-service buildings, set in one of the best-known Victorian landmarks on Beacon Street.
The Tudor, at 34 1/2 Beacon Street in Beacon Hill, is a nine-story condominium building with 17 residences, completed in 1887 as an apartment hotel and converted to condominiums in 1999. It stands at the corner of Joy Street, directly across from Boston Common.
Architect S. J. F. Thayer designed The Tudor in the Queen Anne style on the former site of the Frederic Tudor house. A Romanesque sandstone base carries five stories that pair Boston bowfronts with Queen Anne oriel windows, topped by two partial-mansard stories with dormers. The building rose far above the early 19th-century houses around it, and the public outcry that followed led to measures protecting views of the State House and to an 1899 law limiting building heights nearby. The Family Service Association of Greater Boston bought the building as its headquarters in 1957, and it became condominiums in 1999.
Residences are generous for Beacon Hill. City assessing records show most homes at about 2,200 to 3,000 square feet, with two to four bedrooms. Homes feature hardwood floors and fireplaces, and many look out over the Common and toward the Charles River. A ground-level residence has its own entrance and a private patio.
The Tudor is a full-service building with a concierge and an elevator. Each residence comes with at least one valet garage parking space.
Park Street station on the Red and Green Lines is at the edge of the Common, a few minutes' walk away, and the State House is a short walk east along Beacon Street. Charles Street, the Public Garden, and Back Bay are a pleasant walk west. The Claflin is another condominium building on Beacon Street nearby.
The Tudor remains one of Boston's most exclusive boutique full-service buildings, set in one of the best-known Victorian landmarks on Beacon Street.
