Bed Stuy Townhouse Flush With Mantels, Fancy Wood Work, Tile Asks $2.15 Million

Here’s a looker of a Bed Stuy brownstone, awash in original detail, and sited on a prime Stuy Heights block.

Brooklyn Homes for Sale in Bed Stuy at 588 Jefferson Avenue

by Chris Erikson

06/28/2017 3 minute 0

Here’s a looker of a Bed Stuy brownstone, awash in original detail, and sited on a prime Stuy Heights block. A four-story built in the late 19th century, it sits just outside the historic district at 588 Jefferson Avenue, between Lewis and Stuyvesant avenues.

We have no record of the architect, but some of the neighborhood’s most flamboyant homes designed by some of the most recognized names occupy these blocks on Jefferson.

The exterior is an unusual one, with a distinctive cornice that extends down over the facade of the uppermost story, the elongated brackets creating a strap-like effect around the windows.

The pale stone — perhaps limestone — is trimmed in brownstone. The entry has original encaustic tile in blue and red.

The house is set up as a three-family, with a lower duplex and two 1.5-bedroom floor-through apartments above.

Even a buyer who wants to maintain that layout may well want to do some reworking in the duplex, which has its living space below, with a smallish eat-in kitchen in the rear. The two bedrooms occupy the front and rear of the parlor floor, with the windowless middle parlor in between.

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Many will want to make a proper parlor floor out that space, which is a beaut, with high ceilings, plaster detailing, crown moldings, pocket doors, parquet floors, and a pair of carved, mirrored mantels. Elsewhere there are three others and a load of original woodwork, including wainscoting on the garden level and the original staircase.

It’s a distinctive one, with three sections and barley twist spindles, a favorite Queen Anne style motif.

The condition looks quite good, as far as the photos presented; plenty isn’t shown though, including the two apartments. Likely some upgrading is needed; how much is anyone’s guess.

We featured this one as an Open House Pick recently; then as now, it was repped by Halstead brokers Ban Leow and Samuel Oden Jr. The ask is $2.15 million. How does it look to you?

[Listing: 588 Jefferson Avenue | Broker: Halstead] GMAP