House of the Day: 878 President Street
This Romanesque Revival house at 878 President Street just hit the market and, man, is it a looker. The historic detail is amazing (check out that staircase!) and appears to be in great shape (but what happened to the front parlor mantel?). The house is currently configured as a two-family, so there’s some rental income…
This Romanesque Revival house at 878 President Street just hit the market and, man, is it a looker. The historic detail is amazing (check out that staircase!) and appears to be in great shape (but what happened to the front parlor mantel?). The house is currently configured as a two-family, so there’s some rental income from the garden-floor apartment to help take the edge off of the monthly payments that are associated with the asking price of $3,139,000. Hard not to feel jealous of this one!
878 President Street [Brown Harris Stevens] GMAP P*Shark
“is it a looker”
REally???? Maybe from the outside and only that staircase. Everything else pictured is just meh.
AND OMG THAT FLOOR PLAN!!! Where do I start!
How about that kitchen. What, you don’t see it? Look closely. You can’t get two people in there at the same time.
A powder room that opens onto the Dining Room. NO NO NO NO.
You’re throwing a dinner party. Someone goes to the bathroom. They flush and open the door. Everyone sitting at the dining table hears the flush. And as *rob* would say POO MIST!
ENSUITE BATHROOM for master bedroom!!!!! At this price and this size house WHY isn’t there one? How do you people have sex with kids around? In the master bedroom, right? Do you not ‘clean up’ after? Maybe you don’t mind running down the hall all dirty and skanky to the bathroom to clean up. ENSUITE BATHROOM! Why didn’t the do one in the core. Eeeek!
Laundry – you have to go thru a bedroom to do laundry. Hahahahahahaha.
And what’s that space next to the toilet on the fourth floor? A shaft? The toilet is really seperate room from the bathroom. You poop, open the door, open another door to wash your hands??
And for 3 Million + dollars you can have a badly laid out house with a kitchen you can only toast bread in.
Nothing to be jealous over.
NEXT!
My son used to go to nursery school on this block. Its always been one of my favorite PS blocks. With the current thin inventory, I could see this flawed gem going quickly at/above ask.
Actually the rug looks perfectly centered within the dark wood border on the floor to me. It doesn’t necessarily mean they’re hiding anything underneath.
This house is lovely, no question. But a 7.5 by 11 kitchen in a house that large? Surely I must be missing the grand kitchen a house with such a price tag affords.
They’ve placed that rug strategically to cover up whatever solution they’ve used on the patch to the floor if they took the partition out.I wonder what it looks like.
Wow. That is one beautiful house.
Will take some work, but totally worth it.
I’ll let others quibble, I love this one.
Stunning!!
Not only did someone remove the mantel and chimney breast plaster, they removed the partition that would typically separate the stair hall from the parlor.
the facade looks glorious from the photo.
spectacular house.
keep in mind that it will cost about $10,000 to restore the mantle and rebuild the hearth and another $5-6,000 to get rid of that hot pink paint in the dining room. What were they thinking?
Otherwise, it looks pretty good to me.