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This listing for a Prospect Lefferts limestone leaves a lot to the imagination. But it’s got our attention.

Twenty feet wide and three stories high, the house — at 233 Lincoln Road, between Bedford and Rogers avenues — is obviously not in peak condition. But it’s loaded with original detail — check out the wainscoting, parquet flooring, decorative moldings, elaborate screen, mantel, and pier mirror.

High-ceilinged and expansive, the parlor floor looks like it could be a serious winner with a little attention, and maybe not even that much — the plaster looks to be in decent shape behind the dingy and peeling paint. The listing promises stained glass somewhere, though the pictures don’t show it.

Actually there’s a lot the pictures don’t show — any of the bedrooms, for example, or the kitchen, or the “bar” shown on the floor plan, or the garden, or any of the “sun rooms” on each floor, in what appears to be a 12-foot-by-10-foot rear addition. It’s a safe bet they’re not in move-in shape.

As it stands it’s an oddball layout — two bedrooms up top and one on the garden level two floors below, adjacent to the kitchen. But it’s a legal two-family, so it could be turned into an upper duplex with a garden rental (the duplex would have only two bedrooms). Of course it could also be a spacious one-family.

The asking price is $1,295,000 — no word on whether the grand piano is included. Want to see more?

233 Lincoln Road [Corcoran] GMAP
Photos via Corcoran

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What's Your Take? Leave a Comment

  1. Thanks downtownbklyner – I agree. I also think it would be a great luxury to have the $$ to be able to preserve some of the details that remain — in which case its a more costly “gut around some details”. Again — gorgeous bones and great location but its naive to think you can move in without investing at LEAST $150 sqft. If you have $500k cash on top of purchase, its a great investment.

  2. Thanks downtownbklyner – I agree. I also think it would be a great luxury to have the $$ to be able to preserve some of the details that remain — in which case its a more costly “gut around some details”. Again — gorgeous bones and great location but its naive to think you can move in without investing at LEAST $150 sqft. If you have $500k cash on top of purchase, its a great investment.

  3. Just because the pictures are nice doesn’t mean it’s not a total gut. When you’re dealing with intensive water damage, mold, cracked walls, etc. there’s nothing much you can do with that except a total gut. Nice pictures just mean they hired a decent real estate broker who knows how to do his/her job. But I’m guessing the price reflects the need for a total gut.

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