House of the Day: Would You Midwood?
Here’s another place east of Prospect Park for under $1 million. Located on Argyle Road in West Midwood, this is pushing the boundaries of how far out we’d consider living, but you do get such surburban amenities as a front lawn and a 2-car garage. This particular freestanding Victorian also has a lot of original…
Here’s another place east of Prospect Park for under $1 million. Located on Argyle Road in West Midwood, this is pushing the boundaries of how far out we’d consider living, but you do get such surburban amenities as a front lawn and a 2-car garage. This particular freestanding Victorian also has a lot of original exposed oak wodwork, original parquet floors and some stained glass windows. (For some reason, we’re not loving stained glass these days. A little too precious maybe? Dunno.) Real estate taxes look a little higher than for much of brownstone Brooklyn too. Not sure about the nearest subway service or other infrastructure either. You can find out for yourself whether this place is worth the $925,000 asking price at the open house on Sunday from 1-3pm.
766 Argyle Road [Mary Kay Gallagher]
Just the thing for these boom times.
Notoriously down Q and B? According to whom? I’ve lived on them for years and they’re are the unsung heros of NYC transit as far as I’m concerned. Rarely down and very fast.
Actually I would say Bed Stuy is right up there too!
Anybody notice that the Ditmas houses, ironically, draw more comments than anywhere else on the Brownstoner site? Is it because Ditmas homeowners have envy for the brownstone neighborhoods, or vice versa?
Style names correspond to design characteristics. If it looks like a Victorian then it is a Victorian.
Even though it was built in 1906 and thusly inside the victorian cutoff, we call our house in Ditmas Park West a colonial revival. No royalty were harmed for the label of our style.
Edwardian? I dunno. Do building styles always coincide with the reigns of the monarch they’re named for? Do they send round a memo to the architects? “Sorry, queen’s dead. You’ll have to come up with a new style.”
So what period should we call this if not Victorian?
After a long search we bought a late Victorian house in Beverley Square W 3 years ago…Bottom line is what you get per sq foot plus the porch, parking spaces for two cars and yard….close enough (10 minutes by car thru tunnel to WTC…15 minute Q train to Chinatown, half hour to Central Park,a short walk to lower Prospect Park and a longer stroll or bike to PARK SLOPE….Local schools are ok and things are picking up on Cortelyou road….It is really a bargin all things considered!