House of the Day: 1216 Albemarle Road
Here’s an unusual listing for Victorian Flatbush. The house at 1216 Albemarle Road in the micro-nabe known as Prospect Park South has been sitting empty for over a year but its checkered past goes back much further. The original Victorian house was torn down (a fire maybe?) prior to 1965. The land was then divided…
Here’s an unusual listing for Victorian Flatbush. The house at 1216 Albemarle Road in the micro-nabe known as Prospect Park South has been sitting empty for over a year but its checkered past goes back much further. The original Victorian house was torn down (a fire maybe?) prior to 1965. The land was then divided into three lots and three architecturallly similar shoe-box type homes were contructed. This house is built on the foundation of one of these houses. For some strange reason, Landmarks insisted that the current design incorporate the brick work and first floor window from the 1965 houses into the new design, so what exists there now has been framed out around that 1965 window. We’re not sure whether the current owner ran out of money or just got tired of the project after investing so much time and energy negotiating with Landmarks, but the construction is very much mid-stream, with not much more than some walls, some windows, some electrical and a brand new furnace. It just hit the market yesterday but we’ve already gotten emails from readers about it, a couple of whom contributed the photos below; evidently no one in the neighborhood is particularly happy about how this place is turning out. Even if it were beautiful, the asking price of $1,900,000 implies an absurd multiple of $1,000 per buildable square foot! Egads. Is there any chance in hell of getting this price?
1216 Albemarle Road [Mary Kay Gallagher] GMAP P*Shark
You people know nothing about this neighbor\hood and it is close by Midwood Cause that is the im am going to.Plus i would like for you to stop downgrading where i grew up cause you wouldn’t like if i talked trash about where you live.
Obviously, if buying a fixer-upper or build from scratch home in this neighborhood, the one dripping with detail is the one to go for, for my money, if I was playing with 2.5 plus…
I don’t understand the price, but it could be negotiable, I guess… But this house is more interesting for the same amount of money, even I’m scared to think about the cost of renovation.
http://www.marykayg.com/html/0471.html
When Landmarks designates neighborhoods, it does so for all homes within the boundaries, not certain houses… indeed there are these 3 and also a couple more postwar houses within the Landmarked PPS boundaries. Exposes a serious flaw in thinking and methodology on the part of the Commission in my opinion, that modern buildings are exempt from aesthetic considerations, even if they are increasing their FAR. I’d never heard of the “falsely historicizing” construct… god forbid someone build a wood frame replacement house with nods to its contextual surroundings.
actually from what I know, the two 1960s houses are the only ones in PPS that are unprotected by Landmarks.
…none of whom would pay 1.9 to live in a hideous faux-ranch. People buy into this neighborhood for the character of the houses.
Avenue S and Ocean Parkway…
Nowhere near here.
This neighborhood is becoming increasingly populated by refugees from Manhattan and the other side of Prospect Park.
anon 6:20 –
Prime midwood is more like Argyle road and avenue J not Albemarle and argyle. Plus its not just large orthodox families paying crazy numbers over there its actually more b/c of wealthy Syrian and middle eastern jews who have a cultural tradition of living next door to their married children. So you can imagine what happens when one of their neighbors decides they want to sell…
It is no where near Midwood. This price is absurd! The two remaining ranch style homes wouldn’t go for this price and they are intact. The buyer of this “home” is basically buying a lot in a beautiful nabe. I love my neighborhood (Victorian Flatbush) but this won’t sell.