Boston House Owned By John Hancock On The Block For Nearly $5M

A Boston house once owned by founding father John Hancock is up for sale and could be yours for just under $5 million.

"The Ebenezer Hancock House is now available for acquisition for the first time in generations," read the LandVest Commercial real estate listing.

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"Owned by John Hancock, a signer of the Declaration of Independence, this is the last extant property associated with the founding father in Boston," the listing said.

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The three-story building at 10 Marshall St. is on the National Registry of Historic Places and is "reportedly the site where Ebenezer Hancock, Deputy Paymaster of the Continental Army and John Hancock’s younger brother, stored 2 million silver crowns, loaned by the French Government, prior to disbursement to the troops," according to the listing.

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Currently home to a law, the building "remains the only vernacular structure dating to the mid 1700’s to survive in central Boston."

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The asking price is $4,995,000.

See the full LandVest Commercial listing here.

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