Mansion On The Wick
If that Bushwick mansion featured in The Times this weekend as a hotbed of creativity looked familiar to longtime readers, it might be because it was a House of the Day all the way back in March 2005 (old school!). Back then, the house was listed for $1,100,000, only seven months after selling for $365,000…

If that Bushwick mansion featured in The Times this weekend as a hotbed of creativity looked familiar to longtime readers, it might be because it was a House of the Day all the way back in March 2005 (old school!). Back then, the house was listed for $1,100,000, only seven months after selling for $365,000 (bubbleicious!). Needless to say, the new owner failed to flip it and we now know how he’s covering the mortgage. (We also know what kind of kitchen tiles and cabinets he sprang for in the renovation.) There’s no getting around the fact that this is one cool house. It’s too bad those eyesores got built right next to it though.
A Bushwick Mansion Where Music Fills the Halls [NY Times]
House of the Day: Bushwick Battered Beauty [Brownstoner]
I thought JPD and other Brownstoner readers might be interested in this article on the Pope mansion at 871 Bushwick Ave:
http://www.brooklynology.org/post/2010/08/07/The-Pope-Mansion.aspx
Interesting…when I searched “Abraham Stockholm”, this came up from “THE EASTERN DISTRICT of BROOKLYN!! By Eugene Armbruster 1912 Later added to in 1941”:
John POPE house, made of yellow bricks in 1904, #871 Bushwick Parkway. It is now a Jewish Home for the Aged. The Abraham STOCKHOLM farmhouse erected about 1840, #889 near Harman Street. Peter KINSEY married a daughter of the STOCKHOLM family, the house remodeled for his residence near the end of the Civil War. KINSEY was connected with the Williamsburgh Savings Bank. He resided here until 1915, the house was torn down two years later. There were two other detatched houses on this block. The STOCKHOLM farm was sold about 1884 to William SCOTT of New York City at $225.00 per 100ft.
COuld the book have been wrong and this was the Kinsey Mansion? Or was it another house on the Stockholm Property? Have a look under “Bushwick Parkway” here: http://www.bklyn-genealogy-info.com/Town/Eastern/B.html
Under “751 Bushwick”:
KAICHER-On Tuesday, July 21, 1931, Mathew KAICHER, at Hartford, Conn., in his 80th year, beloved father of Dr. Francis KAICHER. Funeral Friday 9:30 A.M. from the home of his son, 751 Bushwick ave., thence to St. Leonard�s R. C.
Church where a solemn high mass will be offered for the repose of his soul. Interment St. John�s Cemetery.
1935-36 Medical Directory of New York:
KAICHER, Francis Anthony, 751 Bushwick av., 1 to 2, 7 to 8.; Sun. & Holidays by appt. Tel. Jefferson 3-2600. Univ. & Bell., 1906. Al. St. Cath.
Under “749 Bushwick”:
13 June 1878 Abraham STOCKHOLM, aged 22; funeral tomorrow, 749 Bushwick ave.
1879/80 Lain Diectory:
KINSEY Peter bookkpr. h 749 Bushwick av
Doelger440, try both 747 and 751 Bushwick Ave as addresses.
“JPD” notes with proper skepticism the Department of Building’s assigned date of 1901, no doubt spurious. This house – or a house of very similar footprint – appears on the Bromley map of 1880. Which corresponds better to my idea of its date.
Using the present address, there is no entry in the digitized 1888 Brooklyn directory on Ancestry, but that is hardly dispositive.
Christopher Gray
I agree with *Rob*. Oh my god.
What irked me the most was the assumption that the DOB’s date of “1901” was its construction date in the article! Even more irksome was the featured “original” stained glass light that was obviously from Home Depot!!
I looked at buying this place when it was for sale. I looked at its DOB file Downtown and the house’s garage and rear extension were added in 1928. I’m sure the original front section with it’s chunky granite foundation dates from the 1860s to 80s.
And really…it was a dump before it was cheaply renovated. AND there will be a day when that house will command (and be worth) a $500k renovation. At least the damn thing is standing today and is occupied for now, rather than rotting as some shell awaiting demolition.
this is where bedbugs start. no but seriously, despite the lame ass article writing, i think it’s fine. i’ve lived in situations like this in the past.. sometimes they are disasters of real world proportions, and sometimes they work out great and you form life long friendships and bonds with people. i mean, seriously, for a lot of people (im talking even adults over the age of 30) living alone is just depressing and not an option. also when youre around creative people you tend to up your own creativity. nothing wrong with what these people are doing. now the toolbags who go out to the meatpacking district every night, living 3 to a one bedroom apartment in murray hill and even parts of brooklyn on the other hand, make fun of them. cuz they are what make nyc kinda lame, not the people in this house.
*rob*
i DO remember what it was like to be young and broke, and when I was, I still hated the pretentious types who are capable of quotes like–“Really, there’s nothing like this house anywhere in Brooklyn…†Sharing a house with a bunch of artist / musician friends actually sounds like a very cool idea in theory but those houses, in my experience, also tend to be crowded with self-regard (as this one very clearly seems to be).