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Boston's Liberty Hotel Offers Red Sox Packages

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As all baseball fans (even the Yankee faithful) know, Red Sox Nation stretches far and wide. With that in mind, Boston's Liberty Hotel, which occupies a lavishly converted city jail in Beacon Hill, is offering overnight packages that include hard-to-get tickets to Fenway Park.

The offer, called Fenway Fan or Foe, includes one night's accommodations for two, a pair of Pavilion Club tickets to a Red Sox game and breakfast for two. It's available on four upcoming spring weekends: April 17-19 (when the Baltimore Orioles will be in town); May 8-10 (Tampa Bay Rays); June 5-7 (Texas Rangers); and June 19-20 (Atlanta Braves). The price starts at $725.

The 300-room hotel opened in September 2007 after a $150 million transformation of the mid-nineteenth-century Charles Street Jail. An exquisite Romanesque structure, it features exposed brick walls, wrought-iron chandeliers and an atrium (pictured) that stretches 90 feet high. Among many winks and nods to the building's old days as a lockup, the first-floor bar is called Alibi. It's located in what was used to be the "drunk tank" of the jail.

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40 Beacon Street Could Be Boston's Priciest Sale

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Filed under: Estates

For a long time Boston's Beacon Hill has been its priciest area and a recent article in The Real Deal points out that while volumes of sales may have been affected by the real estate slump, prices are still up. And in fact, the more expensive homes are still selling strong simply because larger homes will always have a lure in an area where there isn't much room for expansion. But can the area handle the sale of the 10-bedroom Appleton-Parker House? The large property isn't on the Hill but is located nearby on Beacon Street opposite Boston Common. The brick structure was built in 1818 and was formerly home to the Women's City Club. The property is listed as a development opportunity for a single family user or to break up into condos. The Greek Revival building, known as the Appleton-Parker House is on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978. It is currently used as a single family residence but is broken into four condos, with gated access to three garaged parking spaces and six outdoor spaces. It's listed at $27.5 million and if it sells for anywhere close to that it would be the highest sale in Boston this year.

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Mt. Vernon Place, Estate of the Day

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Today's estate takes us to Beacon Hill, one of Boston's most expensive neighborhoods. The home is located on Mt. Vernon Place very close to the State House. The five-bedroom home was built in 1833 and has a corner location which gets more sunlight than other homes in the area because it has three-sided window exposure. The home has four levels which can be reached by staircase or elevator. Details include a formal dining room with a mural, a walled garden, a circular playroom and a fitness center with a spa bath. The home also has parking for two cars which doesn't sound like a big deal unless you have ever tried to find parking in this area (it's perhaps the toughest place to find parking in the city). It is listed at $16.5 million. After the jump, it's all classic and stately until you get to the bathroom.

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