Christian Science Church Puts Properties Up for Sale

BOSTON-Just six months after announcing it was looking to sell or lease two of its three properties here, the First Church of Christ Scientist says it will put two historic homes up for sale. Both were once owned by Church founder Mary Baker Eddy. The Church will also sell an office building in Washington, DC that serves as an office for the Christian Science Monitor .

Plans call for the church to vacate the 28-floor administration building and the Colonade, a 525-foot building abutting the church’s reflecting pool, and move employees into another church-owned property. A church spokesman says they have not yet made a decision on whether to sell or lease the other buildings. “The board of directors will maintain control over the plaza and those two buildings but we have not yet decided what to do with them.”