House of the Day: Grand Carroll Gardens Italianate Wants $7.1 Million
Grand Italianate brownstones with all the trimmings intact do not come along too often in Carroll Gardens, but here is the second we’ve seen in as many months. This one, located at 393 Clinton Street, offers a motherlode of original Italianate detail, including elaborate cornices, an ornate marble mantel with a carved pier mirror, arched…
Grand Italianate brownstones with all the trimmings intact do not come along too often in Carroll Gardens, but here is the second we’ve seen in as many months. This one, located at 393 Clinton Street, offers a motherlode of original Italianate detail, including elaborate cornices, an ornate marble mantel with a carved pier mirror, arched doorways and stained glass.
Oh, and it’s got a price tag that’s just as eye-grabbing: $7,100,000, to be exact.
In addition to being ornate, the house is gigantic — it’s 27 feet wide and 65 feet deep, with four stories. Currently it’s set up as a three-family, with apartments on the third and fourth floors. (Which, judging by the photos, look decidedly more generic than what lies below.) The bottom two floors are combined for a duplex, with three bedrooms and a study on the garden level, and that stunning parlor floor above.
It shouldn’t be too hard to turn it into a one-family if you want, though what non-Mormon families would do with all that space — as many as 12 bedrooms, spread over some 6,400 square feet — is another question. (The listing, from Jill Seligson Braver and Katherine A. Barger of Brown Harris Stevens, notes that there’s also an undeveloped attic and an “immaculate” full cellar.)
As noted by Curbed, when you break it down by square foot, the price isn’t as big a reach as it might seem. It’s only slightly above the neighborhood average (calculated by StreetEasy) of $1,088 a square foot.
On the other hand, the other grand Carroll Gardens brownstone we mentioned, which we covered as a House of the Day last month, has undergone two price drops since it came on the market earlier this year at the staggering sum of $7,360,000. It came down first to $6,250,000, and is now at $5,999,000. For our money, that one’s actually nicer than today’s pick, though it’s not as vast.
There’s also another grand brownstone a block and a half down Clinton Street that we highlighted last week, available for a mere $4,495,000.
What’s your view of all these details and dollar figures? Think this one has a shot at breaking $7,000,000 (almost certain to be a neighborhood record), or is that a pipe dream? How do you like the house itself?
[Listing: 393 Clinton Street | Broker: Brown Harris Stevens | Photos: Brown Harris Stevens] GMAP
Exterior photo by Christopher McBride for PropertyShark
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I love this house… So grand and well preserved. It is not for every buyer- but for someone who loves the idea of living like a king from another century it certainly gets the job done.
Looking at the floor plan the house doesn’t look more than 55 feet deep. Which is still deep but it’s not 65 feet deep. And if the living room on the parlour floor is 15’6″ wide, per the broker’s floor plan, is the hallway really over 11 feet wide? Price seems very ambitious for a house with an awkward layout that would need work to reconfigure it as a more desirable upper triplex or a single family 4 story home. But stranger things have happened.
I think the building next to it looks pretty good actually. Although I don’t see this place fetching over $6m.