House of the Day: Tompkins Place Queen Anne
This four-story Queen Anne in Cobble Hill is absolutely gorgeous as far as we can see: Center stair, marble fireplaces, pristine moldings. The only problem? The house is 14 feet wide. This makes the asking price of $2.1 million an expensive $900 per square foot. Even in these times of $8.5 million brownstones in neighboring…
This four-story Queen Anne in Cobble Hill is absolutely gorgeous as far as we can see: Center stair, marble fireplaces, pristine moldings. The only problem? The house is 14 feet wide. This makes the asking price of $2.1 million an expensive $900 per square foot. Even in these times of $8.5 million brownstones in neighboring Brooklyn Heights this seems very pricey. Then again, as some of our readers constantly remind us, price per square foot is not the fairest measure when evaluating these singly family homes. If you walk in and fall in love, a few hundred square feet here or there is not going to make the difference.
Tompkins Place Townhouse [Brown Harris Stevens]
While your premise is correct – a few hundred square feet doesnt make that much of a difference – 14 is very narrow. Have you ever been in a 14 ft wide house? Even 16′ is narrow but livable, but less than that and the stairs take up several feet of usable space. If this really is a center stair house, you are left with two (or more) rather narrow rooms per floor.
The price is crazy, but that doesnt mean someone won’t offer it.