House of the Day: 315 Garfield Place
Holy Cow! The owner of 315 Garfield Place in Park Slope wants to party like it’s early 2007. The oversized brownstone (it weighs in at about 6,700 square feet) admittedly looks flawless, but we can’t quite get our arms around the asking price of $8,500,000. According to DOB filings, the seller started renovating the one-family…
Holy Cow! The owner of 315 Garfield Place in Park Slope wants to party like it’s early 2007. The oversized brownstone (it weighs in at about 6,700 square feet) admittedly looks flawless, but we can’t quite get our arms around the asking price of $8,500,000. According to DOB filings, the seller started renovating the one-family house a month after purchasing it in October 2006 for $3,275,550. (The application cites a project cost of just $75,000, but it’s common practice to understate this number.) Still, the market now can’t be any higher than it was two years ago, and the seller’s looking to get a mark-up of more than $5 million. Huh?
315 Garfield Place [Brown Harris Stevens] GMAP P*Shark
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I can personally say withe the exception of sam and bkny you are all grossly uninformed! I have had the EXTREME pleasure of staying in the house many time. Every thing is completely restored to the most minute details. Keys found for all the look, like fixtures taken apart and cleaned or replaced with era appropriate one. Mahogany doors, hand made shutters on all the windows from mahogany, missing molding painstaking recreated. Chrome re-chromed, stainless steel matched. Even the brass screws have all bee removed and polished. The large planters in front are hand made and mahogany. How do I know this. I help oversee the army of old world artisans that did the work and personally search the world for the exact replicas. I have seen the fixtures go out for repair and return. The modern equipment has skillfully been hidden, AC huge sub Zeros, a massive Viking Range, Chimneys reopened by tearing out entire walls so that the industrial range could have a commercial hood. All fireplaces work. The house has been wired for networking. Every single wall has been re-skimed with plaster. Meile washer and dryers on two floors for the maid. This is a house for a family with servants and old world wealth. And person of that stature will instantly appreciate the detail and amenities for staff, as do the current owners. Jealously is a very ugly emotion. This is the real thing, design and restored to be lived in just as it was when it was built in the gilded age. I can’t help if you cannot afford the gilded age lifestyle but many can and will completely appreciate it the moment they walk in the door.
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What the hell is the “Connelly Mansion?”
What the hell is the “Connely Mansion?”
If I had 8 million dollars I would buy one 8 million dollar hooker, or eight 1 million dollar hookers, but one has to be an albino, oh and some fried chicken.
I have a sense of humor or lurker wouldn’t be my name. (and, er….Son of Sam? sam can be a little creepy too, no?) I’m a long time b’stoner (NO- not another What alias!). For the most part you seem like an ok guy, but you have your moments- usually in regards to Crown Heights. I happen to love Crown Heights and Bed-Stuy and get tired of people snarking them.
Would love to do what you do though, but I’m tethered to Mr. Computer. I work from home, so it’s not all bad.
my blog name is Sam, yours is “Lurker in the Mist”
Who’s more likely to come across as creepy and malevolent?
I’m just a regular nice guy who buys and sells houses now and then. I also fix them up. I also have a sense of humor.
Lets hear more about you.
18th century marble tiles in the description of the house? Really? Surely they mean 19th century, no?