With a wealth of unpainted woodwork and other original features — including mantels, pass-throughs and plasterwork — this elaborate 1890s limestone in Stuyvesant Heights is a prime candidate for restoration.

Located at 162 Bainbridge Street house, it is one of a striking pair in the Expanded Stuyvesant Heights Historic District. According to the designation report, the architect of the houses is unknown, but they were built circa 1892. Historic maps confirm that the pair were present on the block by 1898.

Described as “chateauesque” in style, 160 and 162 Bainbridge Street are festooned with carved scrolls, shields, faces and cartouches. The four-story houses have rusticated brownstone basements, limestone on the two floors above, and a top story composed of cornices punctuated by attic windows. There are also arched lintels, oriel windows and stained glass.


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No. 162 is a two-family house set up with an owner’s triplex below a top floor rental. The owner’s triplex is where most of the original detail is found, starting at the entrance with original fretwork, stair, stained glass and wainscoting. The pier mirror in the parlor has lost its mirror and there’s a quirky spiral staircase leading up to a bedroom above, but those are easily remedied. The rear parlor has a carved wooden mantel, built-ins with glass doors and access to a rear deck.

The original dining room on the garden level retains its parquet floors and wood mantel with overmantel mirror. Beyond is a renovated kitchen with light wood cabinets, an island and stone counters. It’s the only one of the wet rooms shown in the listing photos but the virtual tour shows all the details of the bathrooms and pass-throughs. There’s a full bath next to the kitchen with mauve fixtures and wall tile.

The top floor of the triplex has two bedrooms connected via pass-through, complete with original marble sinks, at least one in need of restoration. The front bedroom has a window seat, bed niche and a frieze with elaborate plaster detail, while the rear bedroom has another wood mantel with overmantel. There’s also a full bath, and the virtual tour shows it has its original clawfoot tub and bead board wainscoting, as well as a later pedestal sink and a floor that could use some updating.

The top floor rental unit has a galley kitchen, full bath, living room and 1.5 bedrooms. There’s a painted wood mantel in the rear bedrooms, another pass through with built-in storage and a painted wood mantel with overmantel mirror in the front room. The full bath has white fixtures and a mosaic tile floor.

A new owner might want to use the top floor as bedroom space and turn the house back into a single-family or perhaps move the rental, which according to the listing is not currently rented, to the garden level.

Out back there’s the aforementioned rear deck and a garden ready for some landscaping.

It’s been in the same family hands for decades and now is listed by Tyson Lewis and Helen Alexandra Como Saghir of Halstead for $1.95 million. What do you think?

[Listing: 162 Bainbridge Street | Broker: Halstead] GMAP

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