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Red Sox owner can tear down Brookline mansion



Brookline (AP)  -- Boston Red Sox principal owner John Henry has won approval to demolish a historic mansion and build a new home on the property in Brookline.

The town's preservation committee signed off on the deal after Henry agreed to give the town some photographs and artifacts from the 13,000-square-foot house, including fireplace tiles.

Henry purchased the 7-acre property for $16 million last summer.

The seven-bedroom red brick Colonial was originally part of the estate of Charles Sprague Sargent, the first director of the Arnold Arboretum in Boston.

A 5,000-square-foot-home on the land will also be torn down.


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