301 Berkeley Street was designed by Parker, Thomas, and Rice, architects, and built in 1923 as a seven-story, seven-unit (plus janitor's basement unit) apartment house of steel frame construction with a brick and limestone exterior.
A June 23, 1923, Boston Globe article on the new building indicated that "each apartment, except on the first floor, will have 13 rooms, with four baths, four of the rooms being for servants. On the first floor, there will be two apartments of six rooms and two baths each." The article also noted that "the ‘cooperative ownership plan,’ under which each tenant owns his own apartment, is to be used."
Sometime between 1958 and 1962, two of the floor-through apartments were subdivided, increasing the number of units to ten (including the former janitor’s unit). In February of 1971, the Berkeley-Marlborough Corporation filed for (and subsequently received) confirmation of this occupancy.
10-residential units; located 1-block from Public Gardens, Newbury Street and the Charles River; doorman; co-op.
Historic building information courtesy of BOSarchitecture.com
