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
I can’t speak for 11:24, but no Richie Rich, I ain’t jealous. Just repulsed.
I am rich. What’s your point?
You jealous?
Sure sounds like it.
Sorry, I gave the wrong time of the Tarzan post, it’s 9:52p.m not a.m.
1:05pm, see the post at Sept. 11, 9:52am. He’s talking to you! You Tarzan.
Nobody says a small town is comparable to a big city. Where did you get that exactly, from these comments? Can you point it out?
Instead some comments were about space for the money. Artists and people who work at home need more space at home, than most normal humans (even fairly affluent ones) can afford in NYC. Also, those who can’t afford $20,000 per year PER KID for private middle school and high school, eventually go outside the city. Sorry, as hip as you want to be, if you have children you’ll be confronting the same dilemma. Unless you’re a smug richie rich like you do sound to be.
Guest at 2:56, you are correct in your assessment of the increased cost in refacing a home with cedar shingles and clapboards. I too concentrated on my homes interior. I still have the original shingles on my home and will eventually get the house wrapped and replace the shingles and clapboards. I am not an investment banker so it might take a year or two for me to accomplish!
Mirroring what others have said, this was the best house on the tour this year, and the worst aspect of it (of the parts that were on display) was the siding. In fact a lot of the tour houses were really unbalanced in terms of all the work and money going into interiors while the outsides still had crappy siding. I was also struck by how few people in the neighborhood did anything better than the minimum in terms of their roofing jobs. I don’t recall what it was on this house, but a nice architectural asphalt shingle like Certainteed Grand Manor, combined with copper flashing, makes quite a difference in the look of an old house. Of course the material costs about 5 times as much as a standard 3 tab, copper is far from cheap, and the extra weight adds to installation times and costs.
Small towns are great…but they are just that.,.small towns upstate.
They are not the largest urban center in the country (and the world, for that matter) filled with a plethora of activites, shopping, dining, museums, culture and the ability to meet different walks of life every single day.
Comparing the two is idiotic.
If you don’t like the city, leave.
There are more than enough people who need more than one coffee shop and a main street with a gallery or two to be happy.
To each his/her own.
…not that upstate NY is “diverse” as much as the city is! But I was addressing what 12:29 was referencing, which was whites moving to the cities and blacks starting migrate out to suburbs and down South.
Well it’s not just white-flight inward to the cities, but it’s white suburbanites coming to the cities. White artists traditionally have no problem living in diverse neighborhoods, and also seek more space for less money because they work out of their homes. So there is a trend for artists to move out of the city into particular communities upstate, now. Also gay couples are choosing houses outside of the city. And as we know, according to the Gay Bohemian Index report in the news recently, where gays and artists go, the real estate market goes up. We ourselves are looking at bargains in towns that are attracting a lot of those people upstate.