House of the Day: 1840's House on the Park
Here’s an interesting one. An 1840’s house on Prospect Park for only $1.165 million? Granted, it’s not on the best side of the Park, but Windsor Terrace is no slum. Located at 85 Prospect Park Southwest (A&H gave this away in the file name of the photo!), the house has tons of old-school character from…
Here’s an interesting one. An 1840’s house on Prospect Park for only $1.165 million? Granted, it’s not on the best side of the Park, but Windsor Terrace is no slum. Located at 85 Prospect Park Southwest (A&H gave this away in the file name of the photo!), the house has tons of old-school character from the outside. Which leaves us with the interior and the answer to our riddle: It looks like someone got a little carried away back in the early Eighties. Every photo is cropped below crown molding-level, suggesting there ain’t any. Much of the flooring looks recent and the bathrooms, well, let’s just say they will probably need to be redone. That said, we bet we could have this place looking pretty good for $1.5 million all in (a little salvage could go a long way here), which would be a steal for a parkside residence, no? We don’t think this will last long.
Jewel on Prospect Park SW [Aguayo & Huebener] GMAP
I looked at this house today. THe amount of cheap, shoddy materials used in this house astounded me. The floors are super cheap, the ceilings are dropped, the place is chopped up into terrible little rooms. It would take alot of money to redo everything tacky and cheap that has destroyed this place.
Brownstoner, what happened? I posted a reply to this last night, but it’s not here.
I’ve admired this house from the street for years, so on Sunday I attended the open house. Unfortunately, I don’t retain a distinct memory of the ceiling/moldings, though I think there’s not a lot of Victorian formal townhouse-type detail. I thought the interior was fine, but I may not be as fussy as some here. It was open, airy, and quite charming, and I think many people would find it quite livable just as it is. Yes, the kitchen is new, though small. I don’t think it “needs” any work, unless you just plain don’t like something, like the bathroom fixtures. $1.165 is a lot of money – but there are a lot of houses out there for a lot more money that are not livable without putting in even more.
PS. IT’s the exterior paint job on this place that turns me off – far more than the interior renovation.
How much work *needs* to be done on this house??? Crown moldings are nice, but certainly don’t mean the place is a hovel without them.
The floors look new and clean (yes original would be nice…), and the tiling looks like quality. It says *new* kitchen. The bathroom shown isn’t to my taste, but it looks like the owners spent some money.
I want a report from someone who has actually viewed this listing. Most brownstoners are very quick to say a place needs hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of work with very little or no evidence, and sometimes the work is little more than cosmetic.
This place doesn’t look half bad to me for the price and the location. Windsor Terrace is very safe – just the place for all those too cowardly to pioneer the real hidden architectural jewels of Brooklyn – Ditmas Park and Prospect Lefferts, and perhaps even Clinton Hill.
i find A & H leave a lot to be desired, they are extra hype-ster’s if not out rite “spoofalators”
The punk’d b*tches @ A&H need 2 nvest in a camera w/a wiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiidddddddddde angle lens.
C’mon Peggy A & Roslyn H, get yo sh*t t’gether. Your making stupid money in this market. Try to lift your marketing grapes to a slightly higher level.
1.165, not 1.65.
FYI – A&H almost always cut out the ceilings in photos, they focus on the floor to try to make rooms look large. There may or may not be crown molding, but don’t let the pictures mislead you on that. I think that A&H photos generally leave something to be desired.
Just to clarify, I didn’t mean to imply that Windsor Terrace is high crime or anything like that — I think it’s a nice neighborhood. I just think that park-blocks have the downside of potential increased crime.
‘only 1.65’? Not long ago that would have seemed an outrageous sum, now there’s no sticker shock left.
It’s not a great location (not close to amenities, even if it is on the park), poor train selection…