houseBrown Harris Stevens has just come to market with what has to be the most expensive townhouse ever in Park Slope. At $7.5 million, the listing price puts Jonathan Safran Foer’s $6.2 million $5.75 million purchase of 646 2nd Street to shame. And what do you get for this kind of cash? The 31-footer at 45 Montgomery Place has over 7,000 square feet of space with oval rooms that have rounded doors and radiators, a grand center staircase, multiple original fireplaces. There’s really not much point in debating the price. It’s worth $7.5 million if some fabulously wealthy person falls in love with it. The question will really be how long that takes and how much patience the seller has. Does anyone know anything about the house’s history? Past Owner? Architectural pedigree?
45 Montgomery Place Townhouse [Brown Harris Stevens] GMAP
Foer to Have Bigger Foyer [Brownstoner]


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  1. Check out Aguayo & Huebener’s spelling of a certain Jewish holiday in their listing for the Prospect Park South house. It’s almost derogatory.

    Here is a golden opportunity to enrich your lifestyle, this rare opportunity to purchase a stunningly beautiful Brick Colonial Revival in a park-like setting on the most beautiful street of one of Brooklyn’s most affluent communities.
    This grand home is entered through a solarium to the center hall. From the center hall, you enter the breathtakingly beautiful grand-piano-sized 40′ x 14′ living room. There’s also a formal dining rom and a large kitchen. Seven bedrooms and three-and-a-half baths, a master bedroom suite with private bath, fireplace and deck, inlaid wood floors, window seats, a two room south wing with a wood burning fire
    place to use as an office or guest suite, a two car garage with an electric door opener, tiled roof, a private walled garden, and a basement billiard room are some of the amenities and attractive features that will convince you that this historic Prospect Park South home is the home for you and your family.
    Offered exclusively by Aguayo & Huebener for $1,450,000. Act quickly and you could be celebrating Christmas, or Chunuka, and New Years Eve before the fireplace in this wonderful home. Call to see this wonderful home today.

    To see this property call Aguayo & Huebener

  2. I’m a real stickler for correct spelling, and it drives me nuts to see my friends misspell words in emails (and use malaprops no less!!). English was not my native language, but I have a B.A. in English cum laude from a NYC private college. Maybe everyone is in too much of a big hurry to write/type correctly. I know this is not a blog on spelling, but that’s my two cents for you.
    Re Montgomery Place, it has to be one of the most beautiful residential streets in Brooklyn. Anyone who can pay $7.5 million for a mansion can afford to put in a state-of-the-art kitchen at the drop of a hat (or dollar). Thanks 🙂

  3. The description mentions the elevator. I think this is a tough sell. All those rooms are on the narrow side for a “lyrical mansion”. It’s attached on two sides .. those corner homes on PPW are nicer, IMO. Also, the fireplaces don’t work. The kitchen needs to be redone. The decor, I agree, must go.

    I say it will sell for $4.475mm. Here’s my dollar for the pool.

  4. Wow Anon 2:03 you’re good — I had absolutely no idea what that person was talking about with the “phonetic” time in the market — OK, sound it out now: “Mont gom er y” Good!

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