House of the Day: Rugby Road Mansion
This lovely colonial revival house at 177 Rugby Road has been on the market for about a month at $2.5 million. Although it has some wonderful details (including one of the most amazing center staircases we’ve seen in a long while), the price tage is pretty dear for Victorian Flatbush (or Prospect Park South, to…
This lovely colonial revival house at 177 Rugby Road has been on the market for about a month at $2.5 million. Although it has some wonderful details (including one of the most amazing center staircases we’ve seen in a long while), the price tage is pretty dear for Victorian Flatbush (or Prospect Park South, to be exact). Property Shark says the house is only 3,400 square feet, though we suspect that doesn’t include the top “attic” floor. That said, the plot is 60 by 100 feet and includes a long driveway and garage. Basically, there’s nothing to quibble about in terms of quality (well, okay, kitchen could be a little nicer). The question is price. Are there any recent comps that would suggest that $2.5 is achievable for this place?
Colonial Revival Home [Mary Kay Gallagher] GMAP P*Shark
Listing says 55 working windows!! That’s 55 windows letting air in in the winter. Good luck.
well, i wasn’t raised like an eggshell, but i can imagine, as a kid, really wanting to slide all the way down that banister, no matter how many times my parents would tell me it’s not safe… shoot, i would be tempted to as an adult. it’s so nice and long, and doesn’t have any of the corners that a normal staircase does, to slow you down at each turn. you could really get up some good speed by the time you hit the lower level… and that would definitely not be safe. fun, but not safe.
if there’s an open house, do you think mary kay would let us take a test ride?
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How much do you think it costs a month to heat this house? With a 2.5mm price tag, what kind of mortgage are you talking about? So what kind of monthly nut are you looking at November thru April? Who in their right mind is going to take this on?
Now that looks like a Colonial Revival house! (unlike the ones that were mislabled over on this thread: http://brownstoner.com/brownstoner/archives/2006/10/victorian_flatb_6.html#comments )
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Kids have been raised in house with stairs, since they um….., invented stairs. What kind of fragile little egg shell kids are you raising that they can’t be around stairs?
If they are really little, just put up a baby gate.
I think
I completely disagree with West’s comment. Depite the loss of the original porch (I am the above porch poster), this is one of the more impressive, well maintained, custom crafted homes to have hit the Brooklyn market in years. Whether or not it isworth the $2.5 million price tag is another story, but it certainly no white elephant. I have been in the home.
White elephant.
csk – i’ve lived in that particular neighborhood all my life and as far as I know few homes have hit the $2 million mark… I know one on Albemarle Road was being sold for $4 million last year, but I think it was pulled from the market due to the excessive state of disrepair (the house had also been in many movies, commercials, etc, but that failed to help it)
My parents are currently selling their house in this neighborhood, and compared to the colonial house’s price, I now feel like it’s been mis-priced.