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A downtown Boston property once owned by a journalist who brought the Sacco and Vanzetti trial to worldwide attention has been sold to a Burlington investor for $5.6 million.

Aldino Felicani, who owned the building from 1953 until his death in 1967, publicized the trial of immigrants Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti through his coverage in Boston’s Italian newspaper, La Notizia. The two anarchists were executed at Charlestown State Prison in 1927 after their conviction for the murder of two employees at a Braintree shoe factory during an attempted armed robbery.

The nearly-10,000-square-foot office building at 50-52 Broad St. was originally completed in 1853 as a warehouse and features the palazzo style of architecture typical to mid-19th-century granite buildings in Boston, according to a Boston Landmarks Commission document. Over the years, the building housed a wholesale grocer, coffee merchant, liquor store and leather exporter before being converted into office space.

Newmark’s capital markets team represented the seller, Broad LLC 50, and procured the buyer.