House of the Day: 30 Middagh Street
It doesn’t get much charming than the exterior of 30 Middagh Street, a prewar (Civil War, that is) house in Brooklyn Heights. The interior of the house itself is certainly nice, but frankly doesn’t have as high a charm factor as we’d hoped given the facade. (Then again we’re on record as not being fans…
It doesn’t get much charming than the exterior of 30 Middagh Street, a prewar (Civil War, that is) house in Brooklyn Heights. The interior of the house itself is certainly nice, but frankly doesn’t have as high a charm factor as we’d hoped given the facade. (Then again we’re on record as not being fans of shiny granite countertops and baseboard heating.) Still, big points for location and clapboard siding. Besides, if you can throw down the $2,990,000 asking price, you can certainly spring for a radiators, right?
30 Middagh Street [Corcoran] GMAP P*Shark
True, Minard.
But if one is asking over $1200 psf in Brooklyn Heights, it had better be EXCEPTIONAL. This place is not.
if one is looking for the most square feet per dollar, Brooklyn Heights is not be the place to look.
It just strikes me as very small for three million dollars. The living/dining room is low ceilinged, modest in size, and lacking in character. Sure it’s a nice place but for fifteen thousand dollars a month?
brokelin, on this blog there are seldom approving comments for properties in Brooklyn Heights, even really charming, almost flawless houses like this one.
In terms of one poster’s comment that the interiors could be anywhere, I would add that they could only be anywhere really really nice.
Pretty meh for over $1200 psf.
From the comments, I expected an ugly house. I really like it. Yes, the inside is more plain than end-of-the-century brownstones, but that is how they were built. To dress it up more wouldn’t go with the style of the house as built. There’s something restful about the style of these earlier plain houses.
Yes, I wouldn’t choose the kitchen counter, but it is no more offensive than any of the millions of current style kitchens currently out there. I actually like the panels that allow you to close off the kitchen from the dining room.
And, while AC ducts aren’t so pretty, having central air is really nice. And given that this house doesn’t have the ornate ceilings and plaster that beg for the smaller air ducts that snake through the walls so as not to mess up the plaster and ornate ceiling moldings, I don’t find it offensive in these pictures.
my grandmother rented in this house in the 1940’s
wasn’t in this kinda shape!
cute house! i agree about the kitchen aesthetics and millwork details, but don’t see them as a barrier to sale.
also, baseboard hot water heaters *are* ‘radiators?’ i’m not really sure what the point of your complaint is, except that you don’t want the heat in the bedroom to come out of something that looks ‘low-class’ like an electric baseboard heater does? it looks like there are also central air ducts set up (which are aesthetically no better).
this listing makes me mourn for 7 Middagh…
FLH, who mentioned contextual? those baseboard units are just ugly.