"Boston makes way for its biggest mansion; $23m home unites 2 Back Bay edifices" by Kimberly Blanton, Globe Staff | August 8, 2008
With 15 bathrooms, six parking spaces, and 24,000 square feet of living space, it might be found sprawling across some suburb. But this $23 million mansion is smack in the middle of Boston.
The largest single-family home in all of Boston is being assembled from two adjoining buildings at Exeter Street and Commonwealth Avenue in the Back Bay. Its owner, investment executive Ofer Nemirovsky, spent a decade purchasing the four condominiums in the Exeter building and the adjacent Commonwealth townhouse, and is now combining them in a two-year, gut renovation project.
He's a -- you guessed it -- ISRAELI!!!!
The house's luxuriant features include an atrium bordered by a glass walkway and railings, according to building plans filed with the city. Each of three children's bedrooms has its own bathroom and dressing room. The master suite has "his" and "hers" studies, dressing rooms, and bathrooms.
There's more: an elevator, a sitting room, living room, parlor, media room, family room, exercise room, upper lounge, an "eat-in study," a 27-foot, oval-shaped library, and an office for the house manager.
Nemirovsky, a managing director of HarbourVest, an international private equity firm in Boston, declined repeated requests for an interview, saying he wanted to maintain his family's privacy.
Even by the imposing standards of Back Bay, which has been home to Patriots quarterback Tom Brady, Senator Edward M. Kennedy's former wife, Joan, and car dealer Herb Chambers, Nemirovsky's house stands out for its grandeur and its size. Luxury condominium projects such as the Mandarin Oriental-Boston are mushrooming all over downtown, some with units as large as a suburban house. But Nemirovsky's residence is Boston's largest, according to The Warren Group, a real estate research firm.
Isn't that GREAT while we have the WORST HOUSING MARKET and FORECLOSURE CRISIS since the 1930s?
Isn't it NICE to know that RICHER ZIONIST SCUM are DOING GREAT?!!!!!
The scale of the house recalls the Gilded Age, when Boston's wealthy families between 1860 and 1890 constructed the mansions that line the boulevards of Back Bay.
Well, THAT'S WHERE WE ARE AGAIN!! I say EAT the RICH!!!!!
Ofer and Shelly Nemirovsky, meanwhile, will soon have a house that matches the couple's flair for entertainment. The couple cochaired the Esplanade Association's first "Moondance" gala fund-raiser for the riverfront park in 2004. The elegant dinner and dancing affair included an auction that featured a private dinner with former CIA director George Tenet as one of its prizes. That's not a prize!
And on a bitter night in January 2006, the couple hired the B-52's to perform at his 48th birthday party, in which guests wore period costumes and some were decked out in beehive hairdos. The couple, who currently live in Cambridge, are also high-profile philanthropists, donating to causes ranging from the African Wildlife Foundation to the Greenlight literacy fund in Boston. He is also a trustee of the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston.
Oh, they are "philanthropists," are they?
How much that pay?
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