House of the Day: Woodframe on Middagh
While the exterior of this house looks like it belongs in Greenpoint, it’s actually located on one of the more charming streets in Brooklyn Heights. We hope the next owner of this house has enough dough to do the renovation justice. While the house has more of a 1970’s suburban vibe right now, the potential,…
While the exterior of this house looks like it belongs in Greenpoint, it’s actually located on one of the more charming streets in Brooklyn Heights. We hope the next owner of this house has enough dough to do the renovation justice. While the house has more of a 1970’s suburban vibe right now, the potential, especially given the extra-wide lot, driveway and carriage house, is amazing. With an asking price of $2.395 million, it looks to us like you could put close to a million bucks into fixing this place up and be in a decent place investment-wise. Do others agree or has old Brownstoner lost his marbles?
72 Middagh Street [Corcoran] GMAP
Whoops, that’s a potential port a cochere, not a garage, under the house.
I still stand by the rest of my comments. This place could be great. No one seems to be preservation minded here today.
Seems wildly over priced, but I’m not sure how it compares to other properties in the area.
We have almost exactly the same set-up in Clinton Hill: driveway, garage, big backyard, extra-wide lot, and it’s pretty sweet (although we paid a fraction of that price).
Our house is in similar or worse shape–an eyesore really. But it will only take 25K to fix the facade which will make all the difference in the world. We love having off-street parking and plan to convert our garage into living space. Its like a little compound.
After a few price reductions they may find a buyer with vision who wants a cool alternative to a brownstone.
I agree with everyone who says this thing should be knocked down and rebuilt with something more tasteful, charming and fits into the neighborhood. It’s an eyesore, inside is not charming, looks like something out of a bad scarey movie from the 70’s.
YOu’re looking at paying almost 3MM for a lot, add the expense of demolition, architect, etc and you are looking at almost 5MM now…compare that to the beauty of what’s out there for 5MM in the Heights and you have a HUGE task on your hands…U-G-L-Y
Demolition? Are you nuts? The interior is very charming, there’s an late 18th century/early 19th C house under all of that mess, and if you can afford the place, chances are you can spring for another million to do it justice. I’d get rid of the garage under the house, but the carriage house is wonderful, and could possibly be renovated as a guest house or a studio/office. It’s in a primo location, and I think with the help of a preservation minded owner and like minded architect/builder, it would be fantastic.
I personally like later Victorian houses better, but if I had that kind of money, I’d buy it and restore it, if for no other reason than to restore a piece of history and remove a remuddled eyesore from a very old and historic block. I’m sure my efforts would be rewarded if I chose to sell, I don’t think Brooklyn Heights will ever see a significant housing slump.
2M to make it a decent 1 family???? Just make the upsairs kitchen a master bathroom/closet and the 2nd floor BR a den – it would be ‘decent’ to me.
Doesn’t the interior look salvageable?
Wow. You would probably have to demolish the building and build something huge, new and ridiculous to justify the price. I’m sure that Landmarks will have to approve whatever the new owner intends to build.
Being that this building is in the BH historic district, is demolition possible? There are number of cute woodframe buildings on Middagh, where I lived for several years in the 1980s. I think this house is right next to the fire station.
Talking about $3-$4 million as though it’s chump change…. Now we’ve all lost our marlbes.