Brooklyn Heights Brownstone With Marble Mantels, Sunroom, Central Air Asks $7.75 Million
This Italianate brownstone built around the 1860s or '70s won a Lucy G. Moses Preservation Award in 2010 for the exterior restoration and interior renovation by NV/da architecture.
Renovated Boerum Hill Brownstone With Marble Mantels, Modern Kitchens Asks $4.25 Million
This 20-foot-wide Boerum Hill Italianate in the historic district looks to be in fine shape, with original details and modern updates.
Edwardian Yellow-Brick Row House With Original Details, Updates in Flatbush Asks $848,900
The modest single-family house has been cleanly renovated and retains original details such as moldings and beautiful original floors.
Grand North Slope Brownstone With Original Woodwork, Bay Windows Asks $3.895 Million
This North Slope brownstone, at 212 St. Johns Place, is stately, spacious and in stellar condition. It’s full of original detail that looks to have been beautifully maintained.
Exhibit A would be the beauteous parlor floor, with its vast pier mirror, bay windows, inlaid parquet floors and original woodwork. Note the wedding cake detailing on the walls and the two-tone paint schemes on the crown moldings.
Massive Greek Revival in Brooklyn Heights Has Potential, Asks $6.5 Million
This massive Greek Revival has an interesting pedigree. The house, at 271 Hicks Street, dates back at least to 1846. And since 1951 it’s been home to the family of architect Herbert Kaufman, a key member of the preservationist group that led to Brooklyn Heights becoming the city’s first historic district.
You might expect a painstakingly preserved home from such a figure, but that’s not the case here. A good deal of original detail is missing from the house, and it looks like it may need some updating.
Totally Mod Crown Heights Home With Steam Room, Marble Galore Asks $1.795 Million
This one-family townhouse in Crown Heights has been completely renovated in thoroughly modern style, with contemporary geometric light fixtures, a sleek kitchen and a whole lot of marble.
In addition to being wired up with a home security system, Bose ceiling speakers, master lighting controls and a basement screening area with surround sound, it’s got something not often found in one-family homes: a basement steam room.
Elegant Brownstone With 8 Working Fireplaces Facing Fort Greene Park Asks $3.85 Million
This four-story Italianate brownstone at 163 Dekalb Avenue boasts all sorts of elegant period details and sits on a prime block directly across from Fort Greene Park. Wedding cake plaster decorations, eight working marble fireplaces, and original pocket doors with etched glass are some of the goodies inside.
The condition is somewhat ambiguous — upgraded but perhaps not quite fully renovated, if we interpret the listing correctly.
Design-Tastic ‘Burg Row House With Henrybuilt Kitchen, Lacanche Stove Asks $3.75 Million
This South Williamsburg row house, at 64 South 4th Street, has been written up in both Dwell and Design Sponge, and for good reason. It’s a beaut, gorgeously renovated from top to bottom by Agencie Group architects.
The result is stylish, tasteful and warm, with impeccable rustic-tinged finishes. Features include wide-plank chestnut floors reclaimed from a Virginia barn, tin ceilings, exposed beams, and a glass wall at the rear of the parlor floor.
Landmarked Crown Heights One-Family Mixes Details, Modern Touches
This landmarked single-family, at 904 Saint Johns Place in the Crown Heights Historic District, has gotten a nice top-to-bottom renovation, with a good deal of original detail restored. Most notably that includes a lot of unpainted maple woodwork, including door and window frames, fireplaces, pocket doors, wainscoting and a large pier mirror in the living room.
There are modern touches as well — exposed brick, recessed lighting and a modern kitchen. The latter is spacious and nicely done, with white Caesarstone counters and island, a six-burner Viking range and a wine refrigerator.
Grand Park Slope Neo-Classical Home Has Whiff of Old-Money Privilege With Price Tag to Match
This circa-1905 neo-classical four-story, at 848 Carroll Street in Park Slope, is a domicile of distinction, enough so that it is listed in the AIA Guide to New York City. Designed by architect William B. Greenman, it’s “a narrow bay-windowed neo-classical exile from the Upper East Side,” says the guide.
As it happens, an “exile from the Upper East Side” — a breed that’s been crossing the river in meaningful numbers lately — may be exactly who buys it. If not one of those, exactly, then someone else who covets an elegant, expansive home that carries the whiff of old-money privilege — and who can face down a stratospheric price tag.