House of the Day: 500 Marlborough Road
This new listing at 500 Marlborough Road in Ditmas Park West looks like a lay-up at $1,350,000. The three-story Victorian woodie is in excellent shape as far as the original architectural elements go. (Love those parquet floors!) The bathroom and kitchen also look like they’ve been recently redone in a way that fits with the…
This new listing at 500 Marlborough Road in Ditmas Park West looks like a lay-up at $1,350,000. The three-story Victorian woodie is in excellent shape as far as the original architectural elements go. (Love those parquet floors!) The bathroom and kitchen also look like they’ve been recently redone in a way that fits with the overall vibe of the house. There’s also a shared driveway, to boot. Other than the heating bills, what’s not to like? Is there anything negative we’ve glossed over?
500 Marlborough Road [Mary Kay Gallagher] GMAP P*Shark
In 1880, Port Townsend, Washington had 917 residents. (http://www.historylink.org/essays/output.cfm?file_id=1932)
How in the world is that an “equivalent population to NYC”?
In 1880, New York City had 1,206,299 residents!
This house just closed at 1.325mm. Looks the the price was just about right…
zillow thinks the asking price is 460k too high.
http://www.zillow.com/search/Search.htm?addrstrthood=500+Marlborough+Rd&citystatezip=11226
Great houses. I have never regretted spending almost $80,000 to buy one years ago.
Agreed, Bob.
Guest at 7:31:
I agree with your observation about the foursquare form, which was the norm at that time; however, it is true that some Flatbush developments were custom designed and show more architectural innovation and diversity than others which were taken from pattern books.
The Ackerson homes on Marlborough and the southern end of Rugby, which were custom, are architecturally diverse. His houses on Argyle, however, repeat forms. There is a particular narrow, turreted model that repeats with almost no architectural variation (details are another story – pattern books permitted for that sort of customization) four or five times on Argyle.
Erin,
RE: your August 30, 2007 12:05 PM post, I DO sometimes use Robert Marvin 🙂
Nevertheless, I ‘m amazed that so few of us use our real names. I for one can’t imagine writing anything on a blog that wouldn’t sign. I guess “handles” are OK if that’s what you want to use, but anonymous comments seem pretty chickens**t to me.
All of thses homes are basically variations on the foursquare. As a longtime resident I have been in most of them including the majority of the homes on your site, although no two are exactly alike Erin they are basically the same. Beautiful though!
Drove by the place today. The asbestos or asphalt shingle detracts from the house. Also, the roof looks kind of old. There is a high probability that it will need to be stripped before reshingling at a cost of $30K plus. On the other hand a house on Ditmas and Argyle that sold a few months ago for $1.4 or so just stripped the roof this week. I guess if you’re paying that kind of money, whats another $30k?
Actually, only several neighborhoods have houses that were one offs. Prospect Park, most of Ditmas Park (proper), Beverley Square East, and a portion of Beverley Square West. All of Midwood Park, for example, was constructed from pattern books. No slight on Midwood Park, which is a beautiful enclave. T.B. Ackerson, the developer of Beverley Square West, switched from custom to pattern book half way through building, as the custom houses were losing money. If you walk down Argyle between Beverley and Cortelyou, you will see many variants of the same handful of designs. This is also true of the homes constructed by Walter Lusher, who built the homes on Stratford and Westminster between Beverley and Cortelyou. Walter Lush also built many of the houses on Marlborough between Ditmas and Dorchester – the street in question on this thread. If you walk down the block, you will see that the same designs are repeated again and again, with some small modifications. This leads me to suspect pattern book. Lush’s homes are noted for their third stories, which have projecting, arched rooflines above a recessed, curvlinear arch window. Their are several of these on this block.