CHESTERFIELD — “Sold!”

And it was hugs, cheers and tears all around for members of The Ashmere Project.

The four-year-old nonprofit, which runs a two-week summer retreat for adults with disabilities, won. Ashmere purchased the 197-acre former Chesterfield Scout Reservation, 22 and 27 Sugar Hill Road, at a foreclosure auction Friday following weeks of breakneck organizing and fundraising.

The price was $1.4 million.

“Now we have even more work to do,” said Ashmere Project member Jakob F. Palches.

“Every roof here needs to be replaced,” he said.

Palches estimates that it’ll take $30,000 worth of gravel to make pathways more wheelchair accessible.

“All the materials costs could go into six figures,” he said.

But Ashmere — which up until now has run its camps at Berkshire Lake Camp in

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