Hot Property: A slice of Beacon Hill in Bay Village

Peer out the top floor of 34 Fayette St. — through the tall dormer windows of the building’s mansard roof — and you might think you were in Beacon Hill.

Across the leafy Bay Village street is the 1820s-era John Thomas Dingley home, a handsome red brick Federal style rowhouse with arched entryways and windows flanked with heavy black shutters. Beyond are other low-rise rowhouses, mostly in Federal and Greek Revival style, and nearly all dating back close to 200 years.

“It’s a miniature Beacon Hill, if you will,” said Matt Krepps, who is selling his family’s Fayette Street condo at just under $2 million. “It has the same feel.”

And his building, at the corner of Church Street, is just as much a part of this early American district as its other pre-Civil War neighbors. The brick home was likely built in 1829 by Aaron Coffin and architect Charles Roath — the home’s first resident — according to Kayla Skillin, an assistant archivist at the City of Boston Archives.

Narrow and taller than most of the two-story dwellings nearby, the building gets in a fourth story thanks to its mansard, which also adds character, with its fish-scale tiles, decorative cornice and dentil moldings on the shallow triangle-top dormers.

Condo No. 2, which has 1,832 square feet and three bedrooms, also fits in lots of space in that fourth floor hall, which houses the open living and dining area and kitchen.

“We’ve had parties where we’ve had 50 people there … we found it really great for entertaining,” said Krepps, who runs an applied physics company. While the kitchen in the back corner isn’t huge, it was updated just before Krepps moved in, as was the rest of the place. There’s also a bathroom on the floor and nine windows, thanks to its corner location.

Downstairs, on the building’s third floor, are two bedrooms. One is the kids room and has a luxurious full bathroom with a marble sink top and shower. The other, a big room with high ceilings, is the master bedroom, and includes a huge walk-in closet.

On the floor below, the second level, is another bedroom with a full bathroom that Krepps has sectioned off as his home office, but could be easily used as a family room or bedroom.

At the very top is a roof deck that has both the picturesque neighborhood in view as well as the Prudential and Clarendon towers and other familiar Hub sights.

“Being able to go up on the roof deck ... it’s just phenomenal,” said Krepps, noting the privacy of the deck. “In the South End, you go out on the roof, and there’s someone five feet to your left and five feet to your right. (But this is the) tallest building for a block or so.”

Jayne Zeamer (617-320-9730) is handling the sale of the condo.