AKBrownstone: Loft rooftop views by T
🏠 Live like a local: cozy, lofted bedroom, in a classic Boston Brownstone 🚾 Frequently professionally maintained home, clean shared bathroom 🚇 5 mins walk to the T (Orange Line Subway), 3 stops to Back Bay city center, or go on bike & walking path 👣 Walk to Longwood Medical Area, Museum of Fine Arts, Northeastern, & Fenway Park 🌳 Sunny south/west windows overlooking a park & community garden 🇺🇸 Located in residential & historic Fort Hill/Highland Park, free street parking
What this place offers
Common
- Essentials Towels, bed sheets, soap, toilet paper, and pillows
- Air conditioning
- Cleaning products
- Cooking basics Pots and pans, oil, salt and pepper
- Dishes and silverware
- Dryer In the building, free or for a fee
- Washing Machine In the building, free or for a fee
- Hair dryer
- Heating Central heating or a heater in the listing
- Kitchen Space where guests can cook their own meals
- TV
- Wifi
Bathroom
- Body soap
- Conditioner
- Shampoo
- Bathtub
- Hot Water
- Shower gel
Bedroom and laundry
- Bed linens
- Hangers
- Iron
- Clothing storage
- Drying rack for clothing
- Extra pillows and blankets
What this place offers
Common
- Essentials Towels, bed sheets, soap, toilet paper, and pillows
- Air conditioning
- Cleaning products
- Cooking basics Pots and pans, oil, salt and pepper
- Dishes and silverware
- Dryer In the building, free or for a fee
- Washing Machine In the building, free or for a fee
- Hair dryer
- Heating Central heating or a heater in the listing
- Kitchen Space where guests can cook their own meals
- TV
- Wifi
Bathroom
- Body soap
- Conditioner
- Shampoo
- Bathtub
- Hot Water
- Shower gel
Bedroom and laundry
- Bed linens
- Hangers
- Iron
- Clothing storage
- Drying rack for clothing
- Extra pillows and blankets
Entertainment
- Exercise equipment
Family
- Board games
Heating and cooling
- Portable fans
Home safety
- Fire extinguisher
- Carbon monoxide detector
- Smoke detector
- First aid kit
Kitchen and dining
- Barbecue utensils
- Coffee
- Coffee maker
- Dining table
- Dishwasher
- Freezer
- Hot water kettle
- Microwave
- Mini Fridge
- Oven
- Refrigerator
- Stove
- Toaster
- Wine glasses
Outdoors
- BBQ grill
Parking and facilities
- Free street parking
Services
- Luggage dropoff allowed For guests' convenience when they have early arrival or late departure
- Long term stays allowed Allow stay for 28 days or more
- Cleaning before checkout
Accessibility Getting Home
- Well-lit path to entrance Light can help guests move around unexpected barriers
Accessibility
Neighborhood
Located in historic Fort Hill (Highland Park), the center of Boston's Roxbury neighborhood. My home is in a wonderful & diverse urban residential/bedroom community. Steeped in history since 1630, this hill has hosted figures such as several of the key founders of Harvard University, George Washington and Henry Knox during the Siege of Boston in the revolution, to the famous abolitionist William Llyod Garrison (whose home is close by and the water fountain in front of the house is designed in his image). After transforming into one of the nation's first streetcar suburbs, now Fort Hill is one of the most sought after and up and coming residential neighborhoods in the city with a diverse community of young professionals, working class and long time residents. The neighborhood is a history lover or architect's dream with every period represented. We have a progressive and engaged group of residents where one of the world's leading experts in urban farming resides, lots of public spaces, urban wilds (including our wild turkeys), community gardens, and has become city's foremost leader in passive houses and energy positive homes. From Wikipedia: "Today, Fort Hill is home to an ethnically and linguistically diverse community. Fort Hill has been recognized for its sizable population of residents with Irish, Puerto Rican, Dominican, German and Sub-Saharan African roots.[13] Over the last decade Fort Hill has experienced an influx of professionals, artists and students, many of whom attend Northeastern University, Massachusetts College of Art and Design or Wentworth Institute of Technology. Fort Hill is also often referred to as a neighborhood that is notable for having a high concentration of residents living with same-sex partners,[14][15] and has a history of its residents advocating for gay rights.[16]" My neighbors are wonderful and friendly, so please be sure to be friendly back and say hello to them as well. Check out @akBrownstone for more
Guest Access
Dedicated kitchen pantry (with black color coordinated personal cups, mugs, bowls, plates, pans and utensils), washer and dryer, fridge, kitchen and living room. Pre check-in or post check-out luggage holding is available upon request.
Good to know
Welcome to my home at Alvah Kittredge Brownstone in the historic, friendly and diverse residential neighborhood of Fort Hill/Highland Park. The House: My 148 year-old, newly restored classic Boston Brownstone has four equally unique dedicated guest bedrooms available in this 3 level apartment (to see the other rooms click on my profile/logo). The Room: ➤ 120sqft (11.2sqm) ➤ Loft=Open bedroom located at the top level of apartment, 5th floor total walk up with views overlooking the city & part of the harbor ➤ Total privacy all to yourself, open to the staircase/apartment below it ➤ Original pine floors from 1 8 7 5 ➤ Low ceiling angles so watch your head ➤ Roku smart TV w/ Xfinity Cable TV provided ➤ Fast & reliable WiFi ➤ Integrated kitchenette (electric kettle, tea, sugar, coffee & fridge provided) ➤ Complimentary room cleaning every two weeks for long term stays Longwood Medical Area (Harvard Medical, Brigham & Woman's, Children's Hospital, Dana-Farber, etc) - 1 mile 10-20 min via #66 Bus 15-20 min via Walk 7 min via Uber / Lyft Fenway Park - 1.5 mile 25 min via Walk 12 min via Blue Bikes 10-20 min via Uber / Lyft Back Bay (Copley Sq, Newbury St, Hynes Convention, etc) – 2 mile 12 min via T subway 36 min via Walk 15 min via Bike 10 min via Uber / Lyft How far is the house from your destination? You can use our nearby subway station Roxbury Crossing T station, 5 mins walk away, shown in the 5th photo as a frame of reference in your map searches.
Other Details to Note
The house is actually as it seems in the photos everyday; well maintained common spaces, so I simply ask guests to clean after themselves to leave the common space in order. The loft bedroom is part of a 4 bedroom apartment, and shares a common bathroom with 2 other guest bedrooms; which is cleaned frequently. Low ceiling angles so watch your head in the loft bedroom. The bedroom is a loft, which means it's open over the staircase located on the top level of the apartment & building (4 flights of stairs total, 1 flight down to shared bathroom). Since it's a loft, NO door, NO walls. (To see the other rooms click on my profile/logo). 1 Guest total maximum Our area is considered safe and quiet, but this is the city, and anything can happen anywhere at any time so I always like to tell people to have common sense in their travels in the whole city. We are walking distance to many good neighborhood cafes, bars, restaurants down Tremont St past the T (metro/subway station) and a ~$8 Uber ride to the nightlife of the Back Bay. For more info on our location be sure to read the "Where you'll be" section on the listing for details 👇🏽.
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Logan Airport ✈: Uber / Lyft is the easiest way to and from the Airport, which takes 15-35 mins depending on traffic. For public transit, T, take an airport shuttle bus from your terminal to the Airport T subway station (blue line). Travel in-bound to State T station where you will need to get off and switch to the orange line in-bound. Get off at Roxbury Crossing, and walk up the hill in 5 mins. 40 mins. T (subway/metro) 🚇: The station is Roxbury Crossing 5 mins walk away and it's the 3rd stop to Back Bay 5 mins ride. Another 3 more stops from there takes you to Downtown Crossing 10 mins ride. Bikes 🚲: In the city we have Bluebikes public bike share program, $6 for a 24 hour pass or $12 for a 72 hour pass. I highly recommend this as a way to discover the city. Right at the T, subway station outside you'll see these bikes and the station is located on Boston's longest bike and walking path, the Southwest Corridor Park. 10 mins to Back Bay, 25 mins to Harvard Square. Personal bikes are not allowed inside, but there are bike poles for storage out front across from the brownstone. Check out the photo for reference. Walk 👣: 5-15 minutes walk to local restaurants, bars and grocery store. 15 minutes walking distance to Longwood Medical Area, Northeastern University, Museum of Fine Arts, etc and 25 minutes to Fenway Park, South End. Boston is a walking city where in 15 mins walk one neighborhood leads to another. Parking 🚙: Plenty of free on street non permitted parking usually right next to the house. Uber / Lyft 🚕: Very dependable and recommended compared to taxis which can unfortunately have terrible service, so I don't recommend taxis. Uber / Lyft is the easiest way to and from the Airport, which takes 15-35 mins depending on traffic.
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