On the Market on Fisher Hill

Got a few million dollars to spend on a house? And perhaps you’d like a few acres of lawn, a pool, and several master baths. Ahh…. look no further than Fisher Hill.

With expansive turn-of-the-century homes, curving lanes and majestic trees, Fisher Hill (also known as Brookline Hill, Mount Vernon and Henshaw Hill) is the place to go once you take your high-tech company public or you sell off one of your parent company’s subsidiaries. And it makes sense that this neighborhood is home to the merchant class today; Fisher Hill was named after Francis Fisher, a Boston merchant whose 1852 estate was built at the corner of Boylston Street and Chestnut Hill Avenue.

Bounded by Chestnut Hill Avenue to the West, Boylston Street to the South, and the MBTA tracks to the North, this neighborhood changed little in the last 100 years. From the start, the wealthy residents of Fisher Hill knew what they wanted for their neighborhood; in 1914 they signed a covenant stating “they would not allow the deterioration of their property through the construction of apartment houses, 2-family homes, public garages, stores and hospitals.”

Imagine the horror of a nearby hospital.

Today, Fisher Hill is a neighborhood of single-family turn-of-the-century mansions that sit on smaller lots than in Brookline’s “estate district” on the other side of Boylston. A few of the mansions have been converted into luxury condominiums (Longyear for example) and a few new-construction modernist houses have also been thrown into the mix. One of the nicest things about this neighborhood, which is also home to Newbury College, is that, although it feels remote, it’s right next to Cleveland Circle, the T, and near the Chestnut Hill and Brookline Reservoirs.

Call it estate living, right in the heart of the city.

Here’s what’s on the market in Fisher Hill today:

120 Seaver Street, #E-20
Brookline
BEDS:3/BATHS:4.5
SQ.FT:4,830
$4,850,000

311 Clinton Road
Brookline
BEDS:5/BATHS:6
SQ.FT:4135
$1,995,000

565 Boylston Street, #565
BEDS:4/BATHS:2.5
Sq.FT:2,781
$1,350,000

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