House of the Day: An Extraordinary Carroll Gardens Brownstone
Brokers are fond of calling places “a rare find” – well, this one really is. You may have seen plenty of brownstones with period detail, but this one – at 46 1st Place in Carroll Gardens — is downright aristocratic. Check out the columns, the stained glass, the ornate woodwork and crown moldings, the scrollwork,…
Brokers are fond of calling places “a rare find” – well, this one really is. You may have seen plenty of brownstones with period detail, but this one – at 46 1st Place in Carroll Gardens — is downright aristocratic.
Check out the columns, the stained glass, the ornate woodwork and crown moldings, the scrollwork, the inlaid floors. We don’t know how many they made like this, but not many survive, and certainly not in this kind of condition.
The house even has a name: Wisteria.
The place is huge as well. It’s 24 feet wide and four stories, for around 6,000 square feet.
It’s currently set up as four apartments, including what appears to be an owner’s duplex taking up the parlor floor and the front half of the garden floor. The rear garden apartment, a one-bedroom, has the yard, and the parlor and third-floor apartments each have a deck.
It could also be used as four floor-through apartments, without doing a lick of construction.
It’d make a formidable single-family residence, obviously – the listing also suggests the possibility of a luxury condo conversion.
The house, listed by Marion Fiore at Douglas Elliman, hit the market several months ago, with a price as jaw-dropping as those details: $7,360,000. Nobody bit, apparently, so they’ve brought it down to a still-considerable $6,250,000.
Think it will move at that price? What do you think of the place?
46 1st Place [Douglas Elliman] GMAP
Agreed it’s a hefty price especially for a place that needs work- But it is gorgeous from the street-in a really beautiful spot on 1st Place.
If this was a high end new reno that preserved the details, I think it could fetch close to $6m considering the size. In this tired 1980’s state and and the fact that its 4 units, this might sell for $4+m maybe.
They’re probably thinking that one of these don’t come on the market too often, so lets ask for the going $1000psf and see what sticks.
Insane asking price. Its as if amateurs were pricing this thing. By dropping from the initial price to now, the sellers acknowledge that the house was at least $1 million over what it should be priced. But the price is going to have to come down even more to be sold. Also, is this place landmarked?
There is such a thing as too much period detail.
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012/11/04/t-magazine/04well-loeb.html
Price should subtract the amount it will cost the buyer to strip the white paint off of all the woodwork (unless white’s your thing).
Hmmm, not so much – this place needs some help. And sorry, while 1st is nice and all, it does not command these prices. Crazy-craze if this sells even anywhere close to ask.