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Bed Stuy Brownstone With Seven Mantels, Ornate Built-ins, Radiant Heat Asks $2.3 Million

From what we can see of it, which isn’t a whole lot, this would appear to be a particularly choice brownstone, loaded with original detail.

Brooklyn Homes for Sale in Bed Stuy at 575 Macon Street

by Chris Erikson

08/09/2017 3 minute 0

From what we can see of it — which isn’t a whole lot — this would appear to be a particularly choice Bed Stuy brownstone, loaded with original detail. It’s well located to boot, on a nice Stuy Heights block, at 575 Macon Street, between Malcolm X Boulevard and Patchen Avenue.

Built circa 1899, the house is a looker from the outside, with a faux-mansard roof and some Romanesque Revival details like the arched widows and rusticated stone facade. Inside it’s got loads of original woodwork, including fretwork, built-in cabinets, door and window casings, inlaid floors and the center staircase’s newel posts and balustrades.

There are also seven decorative mantels, the broker let us know and, according to the listing, pocket doors, stained glass, moldings and ceiling medallions. Very little of it is shown, however. There are only three interior shots, one of which shows a nicely renovated bathroom with a clawfoot tub and a big skylight.

A legal three-family, the house is set up as a single residence, with five bedrooms — two apiece on the upper floors and one in the front of the garden level. The parlor floor holds a living room and a dining room, the kitchen is at the rear of the lower level.

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It holds a vintage Chambers range and radiant heated floors, and offers backyard access through “tri-fold accordion doors.” What it looks like we couldn’t tell you, as is true of much of the above.

The electrical and mechanicals are recently upgraded, according to the listing.

Listed by Ban Leow and Howard Ramlal of Halstead, the house — which changed hands for $1.125 in 2014 — is asking $2.3 million. What do you think?

[Listing: 575 Macon Street | Broker: Halstead] GMAP