House of the Day: 491 Henry Street
This ain’t no regular townhouse. 491 Henry Street is a Greek Revival mansion with 50 feet of frontage on Henry Street and old-school features to die for. The three-family home also has enough room in the rear to park four cars. It’s not entirely clear to us how many square feet the house is, but…
This ain’t no regular townhouse. 491 Henry Street is a Greek Revival mansion with 50 feet of frontage on Henry Street and old-school features to die for. The three-family home also has enough room in the rear to park four cars. It’s not entirely clear to us how many square feet the house is, but let’s hope there’s a lot given that the asking price for this puppy is $7,000,000, or almost twice what it would cost you to buy the Lamm Institute.
491 Henry Street [Brown Harris Stevens] GMAP P*Shark
491 Henry Street was the private residence of George A. Jarvis, b. Cheshire Conn. in 1806. He came to New York when he was 18 with $10 dollars in his pocket, eventually opening a family grocery store. In 1838, he started a wholesale grocery business – at no. 81 Front Street. Jarvis was a notable philanthropist, an incorporater of Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute and was a Director of many notable Brooklyn institutions including the Atlantic Dock Company and the Brooklyn Atheneum.
I grew up from 1961-1973 right around the corner from that building. During my time, the building was used by a family which, like most of us who owned in the nabe, lived in the basement or parlor apartment, and rented out the rest of the units, which had been cut up during the wave of immigrant families that began to inhabit the area pre-and post WWII. Oh how my neigborhood has changed so much over the years — change you can believe in.
What duckumu said at 1:40. Can’t comment on the interior, but I’ve been watching the exterior work being done for the past few years, and I can’t believe this is the same house as in the before pics.
btw, the lamm institute looks MUCH better in that pic than it does in person. and considering that it was all classrooms or offices in there, by the end of the day, i think cost will be about the same between that place and this one.
FRACK! this house is on the market? but i’m not ready!!! this has been my dream house since I moved to the neighborhood. externally the reno was total and turned out really nicely. i have no idea about the inside. but that is seriously wanky about the rental units. weird weird weird. if you can afford $7MM, wouldn’t you just have an investment property completely separate from your home?
this house has a huge parking area, plenty of space to build a two car garage and have tons of space left. btw, this is next door to the huge church condo conversion thingy on degraw.
Thou shalt not covet thy neighbors’ brownstones.
hehe dibs
Thank you, sir. I see it clearly now. We are not here to discuss places we might buy or aspire to buy, but to pay homage to the brownstone shrines of our fair borough.
glory hallelujah and praise be to saint C.P.H. Gilbert
the angel of foreclosure death went forth throughout the land but the doorposts of row houses painted with the blood of a spring lamb (code for real estate BULL) passed over brownstone breuklyn
loverly CotD and HotD, ‘stone, looking forward to viewing more glorious shrines throughout holy week.
Clearly this house is big enough to include rentals, but do you want them at this price? Tenants would all share the lovely front entrance with the owners, and the rental apt occupies all the front windows on the second floor.
BH, I don’t understand why you’re so upset with these?? Try and enjoy life this week, the holiest of weeks for many people.