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This ain’t no regular townhouse. 491 Henry Street is a Greek Revival mansion with 50 feet of frontage on Henry Street and old-school features to die for. The three-family home also has enough room in the rear to park four cars. It’s not entirely clear to us how many square feet the house is, but let’s hope there’s a lot given that the asking price for this puppy is $7,000,000, or almost twice what it would cost you to buy the Lamm Institute.
491 Henry Street [Brown Harris Stevens] GMAP P*Shark



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  1. 491 Henry Street was the private residence of George A. Jarvis, b. Cheshire Conn. in 1806. He came to New York when he was 18 with $10 dollars in his pocket, eventually opening a family grocery store. In 1838, he started a wholesale grocery business – at no. 81 Front Street. Jarvis was a notable philanthropist, an incorporater of Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute and was a Director of many notable Brooklyn institutions including the Atlantic Dock Company and the Brooklyn Atheneum.

  2. I grew up from 1961-1973 right around the corner from that building. During my time, the building was used by a family which, like most of us who owned in the nabe, lived in the basement or parlor apartment, and rented out the rest of the units, which had been cut up during the wave of immigrant families that began to inhabit the area pre-and post WWII. Oh how my neigborhood has changed so much over the years — change you can believe in.

  3. What duckumu said at 1:40. Can’t comment on the interior, but I’ve been watching the exterior work being done for the past few years, and I can’t believe this is the same house as in the before pics.