50-Room Back Bay Mansion Sells for $14.5 Million

The historic and grandiose Ames-Webster mansion sold last week after three years on the market.

The 26,000-foot mansion – at 306 Dartmouth St., between Commonwealth Avenue and Marlborough Street – boasts 50 rooms, 28 fireplaces, a 60-foot-long great hall and parking for six cars. It had been serving as the offices of Raymond Property Co., and was put on the market in January 2010 for $23 million, according to the Boston Herald.

Last week it was bought for $14.5 million by "FAL Boston LLC, an entity managed by Fahad Al-Athel, a Saudi sheikh and head of FAL Holdings, a conglomerate based in Riyadh," the Herald reported. It's unclear what Al-Athel has planned for the property.

The home was built in the 1800s for Stephen Van Rensselaer Thayer and his wife, Alice. It was later sold to Charles Whitney, and then, in 1880, to capitalist Frederick L. Ames, who renovated it.

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