Award-Winning Heights House Sells
[nggallery id=”54151″ template=galleryview] Shortly after 28 Middagh Street in Brooklyn Heights hit the market in November ’09, it was a House of the Day and listed for $4,200,000. The property ended up selling for $3,000,000 in a transaction recorded in city records earlier this week. Back when it was first listed, The Eagle ran a…
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Shortly after 28 Middagh Street in Brooklyn Heights hit the market in November ’09, it was a House of the Day and listed for $4,200,000. The property ended up selling for $3,000,000 in a transaction recorded in city records earlier this week. Back when it was first listed, The Eagle ran a profile of its owner and his renovation of the four-story property, which resulted in the Brooklyn Heights Association’s 2006 Award for Architectural Excellence. (The old listing photos above show some of the interior.) The seller had this to say about the house’s condition pre-renovation: “‘Sometime after 1940, someone removed the front stairway, added asbestos shingles, created a side entry and added a two-car garage. In their mind they probably thought they were modernizing it, but it looked horrible.'” The seller reduced the size of the garage, extended the back of the house, and used the top two floors as a two-bedroom rental. Also of interest on this one is its history on the market: According to StreetEasy, it saw a bunch of price cuts through June of last year; was de-listed in August; and re-emerged with a $3,250,000 price tag last September.
House of the Day: 28 Middagh Street [Brownstoner]
Award-Winning Heights Home on Market for $4.2M [Eagle]
“It looks fine. They did a nice job. who cares whether it had a stoop or whether it has one now.”
just curious – jerk!!
Design wise the facade is out of whack. Every facade I’ve ever seen where the original stoop has been removed, looks off balance. Just my opinion.
I’m a little surprised it did not go for more.
But it was designed basically as a bachelor’s pad not as a family home, which is what sells in the Heights. Also the decor is not classic Upper East Side traditional, which also sells better. It is also not huge. Silly concerns about the BQE have nothing to do with it.
It looks fine. They did a nice job. who cares whether it had a stoop or whether it has one now.
Incidentally, the widget was $200K over the sale price. Otherwise, I agree with all the comments above.
cool northheights – thanks for the info!
Yeah they definitely lost some value on the house by adding two rentals on the top floors.
DH – yes, this house and almost all of its neighbors originally had stoops. The front door on this house was where the bay window is now. (This bay matches the deep door surround/small porch on the original.) Some of the high stoops on houses like this went sideways (there’s a similar one across Middagh), others went straight out.
You can see where the front door was removed on the brick house to the right – notice the higher lintel and the mismatched brick.
The frame house to the left doesn’t appear to ever had a stoop since its entry is at grade. However, there’s a frame house on Hicks Street around the corner that currently has an entry at grade, but I’ve seen old photos and it had a stoop up to the parlor level.
The facade looks unfinished to me. Out of balance, and the doorway looks too small for the building. Screams I need a stoop.