House of the Day: 1306 Albemarle Road
One word: Droolworthy! This house at 1306 Albemarle Road in Prospect Park South is the perfect poster-child for Victorian Flatbush. The 15-room mansion last changed hands twelve years ago; the previous owner lived there for decades. This place has it all: original woodwork, flooring, Tiffany windows, columns, etc. There’s even a five-room office with a…
One word: Droolworthy! This house at 1306 Albemarle Road in Prospect Park South is the perfect poster-child for Victorian Flatbush. The 15-room mansion last changed hands twelve years ago; the previous owner lived there for decades. This place has it all: original woodwork, flooring, Tiffany windows, columns, etc. There’s even a five-room office with a separate entrance. Enough talking—just check out the photos. The asking price of $2,595,000 is up there but seems perfectly achievable to us given the infrequency that something like this becomes available. Agree?
1306 Albemarle Road [Mary Kay Gallagher] GMAP P*Shark
It looks beautiful but I also wonder about potential mechanical pitfalls and the price range for the area.
Aw, come on! Assuming you’ve got the money to buy it, and upkeep is not an issue, nor is doing any renovating, what’s not to love? (I don’t have anywhere near that kind of money, so this is all speculation)
If you strip the old varnish, it will probably come out a warmer, lighter brown. Paint! Use light, warm colors and brighten up the rooms. Buy light colored furniture, sheer window treatments, or light colored shades – get rid of the heavy drapes. Use brighter task and accent lighting. I would keep that original looking wallpaper in the dining room, however. One dark room isn’t a bad thing. Upstairs looks light and airy. It’s possible to make this place much lighter in feel, and even more contemporary without losing the period feel of the home, and still leave every stick of wood and original trim in place. This would be a fun place to decorate.
The interior’s also much more in the Arts & Crafts, post Victorian style, which gives you great options to include lighter weight Victorian pieces, Mission and A &C, and even more clean contemporary pieces like some of the better stuff from Pottery Barn, which would look nice in here. The present owners have gone with a formal Colonial Revival look that does’t look too comfortable. Often it’s not the house, it’s what you do with it.
I love this place – if I could afford it, I’d be all over it in a minute.
That S. Elliott place did sell:
http://corcoran.com/property/listing.aspx?ListingID=746311&Region=NYC
But there’s no price listed — is there any way to find out if this actually sold at asking?
The house is beautiful!!!!!! I know that Mary Kay has had a couple in the 2 mill price range that have ben on the market for a long time… I am curious to see how quickly and for what price this sells at…
I could never live in a house like this. I would feel like a doll.
meant s. elliot.
The five-story brownstone at 30 S. Portland is still on the market — http://www.brownharrisstevens.com/detail.aspx?id=727404 — at $2.6 million.
Does 2 pm actually have a link to the property he was talking about, or was he just shilling as usual?
Yeah, what’s the $3.7 million S. Portland house that 2 pm is referring to? There was the $3.7 million S. Elliott place that I asked about earlier, but I didn’t see that that had sold.
True, 2:20. I’ve lived in a large Victorian that wasn’t expertly retro-insulated and I had many a night standing shivering over the radiator to get warmed. And this wasn’t even in a place as far north as NYC.