303 Park Pl: If You Don't Like Old Houses, Don't Buy One!
You’d think that people who have no appreciation for older architecture could find a house that’s already missing its original details when it comes time for them to buy something. Instead, some people (like the new owners of 303 Park Place) buy a gorgeous historic home and proceed to strip it to the bone. Here’s…
You’d think that people who have no appreciation for older architecture could find a house that’s already missing its original details when it comes time for them to buy something. Instead, some people (like the new owners of 303 Park Place) buy a gorgeous historic home and proceed to strip it to the bone. Here’s what the Craigslist ad (which expired over the weekend) said:
Due to remodeling of a 100-year old Prospect Heights 1-family brownstone, we are offering selected antique Victorian architectural items. This is a one-time chance to improve your home with gorgeous authentic details that are seldom on the market. Items include Victorian oak fireplace mantels, redwood staircase complete with 3 stair runs, curving railings, balusters, Tiffany-style stained glass window panels, Victorian solid gingerbread entrance doors, antique tin ceiling tiles, ornate glass ceiling chandeliers, hinges and doorknobs and more.
Can any neighbors let us know what the couple plans to do with this place? Ugh.
House of the Day: 303 Park Place [Brownstoner] GMAP P*Shark
Victorian Antique Architectural Items [Craigslist]
12:29–but then it wouldn’t be entertaining.
12:29. Or at least lets limit the obnoxious comments to posts on 4th avenue development, condos, and developers. Since they are the ones that truly deserve the scorn.
ugh, too bad there can be no threads on Brownstoner anymore that aren’t full of obnoxious comments back and forth.
I hear the guy who bout the house is president of Garden State Brickface…
Not for sale, Tool 11:20.
I guess I should be grateful– the more fools that gut the value of these houses by removing what makes them special, the more valuable my old pile gets.
I live near the house and it not a carved up boarding house kind of building where restoration would be difficult. It needs some TLC but it is in no way beyond restoring – as you can see from the pictures. There are many houses that are better candidates for a gut and I will be truly sorry to see this turned into a cliched white walled minimalist home with the inevitable modern staircase (there was one posted here a few days ago.), harsh bright recessed lighting and the rest of the ‘modern features’. It is as cliched as any 50’s or Victorian style. I think it is close to a crime to see these people are doing.
We should bring back Victorian fashion too.
it was a craiglsits post – its alrwady public! What a bunch of tards on this site.
In ten years there is going to be big money to be made in recreating the Victorian detail in brownstones. These things are cyclical, we are currently in an anti-Victorian phase.