Megan Johnson Globe correspondent March 4, 2021 5:00 am
An expansive Federal-style Beacon Hill home believed to have served as a stop on the Underground Railroad has hit the market for $10,750,000.
Listed for the first time in nearly 20 years, 28 Chestnut St. holds a lot of history in its five stories. Built in 1823, the property was designed by Jesse Shaw. His uncle, Robert Gould Shaw, rose to fame as the Union commanding officer who led the first all-Black regiment in the Civil War, the 54th Massachusetts Infantry. The Shaws were a prominent abolitionist family, and Robert Gould Shaw kept his horses in stables behind the property as he assembled his regiment in 1863. (His story was told in the 1989 film