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Ditmas Park Colonial Revival With Mantels, Wraparound Porch, Garage Asks $3.195 Million

There is plenty of space and detail to be found in this Ditmas Park standalone, with seven bedrooms and original woodwork and mantels.

by Susan De Vries

04/13/2022 4 minute 0

There is plenty of space and detail to be found in this Ditmas Park standalone, with seven bedrooms and original woodwork and mantels. The single-family also has space on the exterior with a front porch for lounging, front and rear yards, and a driveway and garage. At 466 East 17th Street, the Colonial Revival-style house is located within the Ditmas Park Historic District.

It is one of a two houses on the block developed by the partnership of Shapter & Morse, made up of architect George L. Morse and Harry Shapter, who was in the real estate business. The houses were completed by the fall of 1900 when the pair advertised the new dwellings as “high class houses” with 12 rooms. Even then parking was pitched as one of the amenities. At No. 466, Morse designed a clapboard house with a broad front porch and a Palladian window set into the front gable.

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The spacious first floor includes a wood-filled entry with original stair, living room and dining room — both with columned mantels — and a den with a bay window. There are wood floors, moldings and picture rails throughout.

At the rear of the first floor is the renovated kitchen with glass-front upper cabinets, white counters and a cooktop set into a peninsula with room for seating. Adjacent is a powder room along with access to a side porch leading to the rear yard.

Upstairs are four bedrooms and two full baths, one of them a Jack and Jill. The street-facing bedroom boasts a windowed dressing area, walk-in-closet and access to a terrace above the front porch. Three more bedrooms, one with skylights and an en suite bath, are above. That one is currently set up as a home office. Only one of the three full baths is shown and it has a clawfoot tub with vintage-inspired hardware, bead-board wainscoting and a dresser turned into a vanity.

Laundry and a workshop are in the cellar which, according to the listing, is freshly painted with room for storage.

Outside, planting beds with shrubs and trees wrap around the front porch, which has plenty of room for seating and its original wood ceiling. In the rear is a landscaped yard with grass and plantings and a deck big enough for dining.

The property hasn’t been on the market since the 1990s. Listed by Mary Kay Seery and Catherine E. Witherwax of Brown Harris Stevens, it is priced at $3.195 million. Worth the ask?

[Listing: 466 East 17th Street | Broker: Brown Harris Stevens] GMAP