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
2:10 mentions it. What about the mechanicals. I would very much worry about leaking pipes and electrical in a woodframe 1905 house. If the previous owners have such long tenures, it doesn’t seem either would have redone all the wiring. Plus, this rambling woodframe house, unless it has been expertely retro-insulated must be an immense nightmare to heat. This is too much dough for the location in my opinion.
2PM referred to “3.7 million S. Portland”. What property is that? I thought (E)L’s house on the park was one of the highest yet and it sold in the lower 3-point-somethings.
But that’s what 2:05 was saying, 2:15. This kind of interior is for some people (like you) but not for them. I hardly read 2:05’s comments as offensive. Yours however sound defensive and superior.
I myself do like some Victorian interiors but even I find this house TOO over the top Victorian. It’s too much for me when it’s more like a movie set than a home. Which is a perfectly reasonable assessment to say out loud. This thread is all about how appealing this property is to the widest range of qualified buyers possible – the only way it will get its asking price.
“Sorry, it’s really not for me. Too dark, too oppressive, too “precious.” I’m glad there are people out there who love it though because it’s obviously an interesting house from a historical perspective.”
If you want that whole sunny, open, light/bright, then look at something like http://bstoner.wpengine.com/brownstoner/archives/2007/09/condo_of_the_da_63.php#comments
(which makes me shudder just to look at it).
A proper Victorian has dark wood details, and isn’t an open plan (could you imagine trying to heat a home 100 years ago that was just one huge open space)?
I adore all that dark wood and cozy rooms, I have plans to strip the white paint off my wood details and put in more doors to close off the rooms.
Someday this war’s gonna end. That’d be just fine with the boys on the boat. They weren’t looking for anything more than a way home. Trouble is, I’d been back there, and I knew that it just didn’t exist anymore.
Captain Benjamin L. Willard – Apocalypse Now
The What
Folks the end of money is here. Due to this mutant Real Estate shit will be fucked for years to come. 100 Dollar oil and 900 gold. Your money is worth shit now. The American Dream requires you to be asleep…….
2pm, Berkeley Place is NOT the same as this location! Get real. This might be a nice enough neighborhood but it will never be comparable to prime Park Slope.
I have to agree with 2pm, they are selling. For big #’s.
Look at that place on Howard Pl. that sold for $1.370M
That house is only 17′ wide with no driveway.
If anything was a crazy price that was but guess what it sold..
Well it’s certainly in MKG’s interest to use her particularly nice properties to drive up prices in the neighborhood she specializes in. It doesn’t mean the house is actually worth these prices, but she knows it only takes one buyer to fall in love and go for it.
The thing that makes me pause is what’s not shown. Like the office. I have a hard time believing it’s all that beautiful. If it’s zoned to be an office can it be used as a residential rental instead? Not everyone wants a doctor’s office in their house. So that’s money to spend to convert back to some form of living space. Next, are the kitchen and bathrooms new? No pictures, which always makes one wonder about that. If the current owner has been there 12 years the kitchen and bathroom are likely at least 12 years old. Just office, kitchen and bathrooms would cost anywhere from $200,000 to $500,000 additional investment for renovations. Also she doesn’t say mechanicals are new, except for the roof.
Sorry, it’s really not for me. Too dark, too oppressive, too “precious.” I’m glad there are people out there who love it though because it’s obviously an interesting house from a historical perspective.
While everyone seems to be in disbelief about the prices, they are selling. And they are selling fast.
3.7 million S. Portland gone in weeks.
The Berkeley Place FSBO fixer highlighted here a couple weeks ago at 2.7 million is sold. Less than a month.
Yet people come on here and say time after time that these prices will never happen.
They ARE happening.