HOTD: How Low Can the Pfizer Mansion Go?
The Pfizer mansion at 280 Washington Avenue has been on and off the market and all over the price map for almost two years now. The 12,000-square-foot mansion, which is dripping with restored period detail (a little over the top in come cases), started at $3,595,000 in January 2005 before going off the market a…
The Pfizer mansion at 280 Washington Avenue has been on and off the market and all over the price map for almost two years now. The 12,000-square-foot mansion, which is dripping with restored period detail (a little over the top in come cases), started at $3,595,000 in January 2005 before going off the market a few months later; then in February of this year, it burst back onto the scene at $3,995,000, only to be reduced a few months later to $3,695,000. And now last week it dropped by almost another 10% to $3,399,000. Where does it stop? As we’ve said before, it’s not very expensive on a per square foot basis. There just aren’t a lot of buyers looking to drop more than $3 mil on a place in Clinton Hill just yet.
280 Washington Avenue [Corcoran] GMAP P*Shark
House of the Day: 280 Washington Avenue [Brownstoner]
Pfizer Mansion Hitting Market [Brownstoner]
Taganrog rocks! Thanks for the link to the site. Might as well drool over houses in the former USSR for a change.
If it would be back in Soviet Union I would think that this building would be restored to become something like museum of, say, old Brooklyn: architecture, life, artifacts, pictures, stories, etc.
When I was a kid I remember a lot of this in my childhood town in Taganrog: old buildings of architectural interest, mostly former private houses turned to museums. One was museum of architecture and history of Taganrog, one housed art collection. That was in addition to the main historical museum that was also housed in a former nobility club. All houses were restored and looked really nice. You could go to http://www.taganrog.ru to look at them.
But you need a different type of economy for this. I do not think that now all of this is in a such good shape as it used to be back in 70s.
I like the preschool idea, maybe the owner will donate the building. That place could probably accomodate a 100 kids – such they will not appreciate the period details but at least the building will “give back” to the community.
I was thinking similar thoughts to those just above. That’s not a house, it’s an institution.
Funny, I was just thinking that the building (based on the space) would make a great pre-school/kindergarten (god knows brooklyn needs more), but I agree that an arts organization would be a better fit. Anyone know of a foundation willing to front the money for this great plan.
This would be a great building for some sort of arts organization HQ. You could put cubes in some of the rooms without destroying their beauty and use the grand drooms it for meetings and events.
Sylvia – That Cathedral looking room is in the basement. Those windows look out onto the front of the building.
Just read the description. That must be the “Moroccan party room” they’re describing on the garden level. 14′ ceilings!
What’s that last picture on the Corcoran site? It looks like the interior of a cathedral. Is this actually one of the rooms in this place? From the shape of the windows, it looks like this could only be in the basement. Do they have a cathedral in their basement? If so, can we go listen to Rachmaninoff in it?