Top 5 Stories on Brownstoner This Week: A Look Inside the Domino Sugar Refinery
Catch up on your reading with a look at the most popular stories from the past week.
Bay Ridge’s Quirky Gingerbread House Is Back on the Market, Asking $8.75 Million
A fairytale-like abode in Bay Ridge is back on the market, looking for just the right buyer to succumb to its eccentric charms. Known affectionately as the Gingerbread House, in architectural terms the abode at 8220 Narrows Avenue is more properly Arts and Crafts in style with rubble stone walls and an organic, swooping roofline.
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A Renovated Park Slope Row House With Central Air and More to See, Starting at $1.999 Million
Our picks for open houses to check out last weekend were found in Park Slope, Prospect Lefferts Gardens, and Crown Heights. They range in price from $1.999 million to $4.995 million.
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A Downtown Brooklyn Greek Revival Row Hits the Market, With Houses Starting at $1.97 Million
They have managed to survive the development push in Downtown Brooklyn, but all four houses in an unprotected Greek Revival row have now hit the market, their future unclear.
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Peek Inside Williamsburg’s Transformed Domino Sugar Refinery Building [Photos]
Almost six years and a global pandemic after the city’s Landmarks Preservation Commission approved the unexpected design for Williamsburg’s Domino Sugar Refinery, construction is wrapping on the iconic building and the office portion is expected to be finished today, according to developer Two Trees.
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Grand Artist-Renovated Heights Brownstone With Elevator, Plasterwork Asks $15 Million
It certainly has an impressive price tag, but this circa 1860 brownstone also has a long list of elegant details to go along with that asking price, including a designer renovation. There are updated wet rooms for each unit, central air, and singular details like a staircase ornamented with abstract floral ironwork. The three-family also has intact historic features like plasterwork and marble mantels. For history lovers, the house at 126 Pierrepont Street also neighbors the newly opened Center for Brooklyn History.
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