Wanna live in a house designed by the same architect that designed the Museum of Natural History (or a wing of it, anyway? This spectacular 2-family brick sits on a double-wide lot at 1290 Pacific Street and is absolutely dripping in details. (In addition to the museum, the architect JC Cady also desgined the Union Methodist Church around the corner on Dean and New York Avenue.) In addition to almost 5,000 square feet of interior space, there’s also a long driveway that leads to the rear of the house. The major drawback of the house is that it is wedged between some larger apartment buildings and is a little too close to a rather noisy corner of Nostrand Avenue. Interestingly, this house was bought by a couple of British artists back in 2003 for $610,000. While renting part of the house out to some other artists, the owners renovated the house and did a lot of work on the front garden area as well. It’s tough to know what to make of the asking price of $1,450,000. On the one hand, its a one-of-a-kind house with an impeccable architectural pedigree; on the other, unfortunately many of the people who have that kind of dough to spend aren’t ready to rock Crown Heights yet, historic district or not. We hear that the owners briefly tried to go the FSBO route before handing off the Brooklyn Properties. This’ll be an interesting one to watch for sure.
1290 Pacific Street [Brooklyn Properties] GMAP P*Shark