House of the Day: 49 Rutland Road
This place sure is purdy.
This place sure is purdy. According to the listing, the four-story brick and limestone house at 49 Rutland Road in Prospect Lefferts Gardens is one of five houses in a row designed by the architect John J. Petit in 1897. The interior of the 3,500-square-foot house is full of original details—pier mirrors, wood mantels, and ribbon pattern parquet floors—but has obviously had some modern updating in the right places. All good. And what about the asking price of $1,450,000? Think it’ll fly? There’s a pair of open houses this weekend for the curious.
49 Rutland Road [Brown Harris Stevens] GMAP P*Shark
plus the love you will feel in every square inch of the place.
Kathie Lee Gifford…is that you????
1:39,
This block is in the NYC Prospect-Lefferts Gardens Historic District as well as the NY State and National Register Lefferts Manor Historic Districts.
Several posters have mentioned that schools and shopping are better in Park Slope. That is, obviously, true and is one reason why this house is half the price of a similar one across the park.
I am the owner of the house.
Wait till you see the other rooms that are not shown in pics, plus the love you will feel in every square inch of the place.
There’s a sun-drenched library room with bay window, ornate bathroom with original clawfoot tub and fixtures, plus marble pass-through sinks and tiled fireplaces in every bedroom.
The parlor floor has 3 floor to ceiling pier mirrors, all dating from the turn of the last century.
The yellow roses are still out in the front yard!
Come down and see for yourself this weekend.
Very pretty house. It’s in the Manor, which is landmarked. The four story around the corner at 52 Midwood sold for 1.625 this past summer, so I’d expect this to do well. The nabe just got its first sushi place, so look out!
This house is in much better shape that the previous Rutland Road HOTD at a somewhat lower asking price. With no chance for renta lincome I think it will take someone with rather deep pockets, but its a teriffic house.
In the discussion of 72 Rutland a week ago or so, someone observed that Rutland Road was not as nice as Midwood or Maple Streets. That might have been [marginally] true when I moved to Leffertrs Manor in 1974, but I don’t think ii’s been the case for the last 15–20 years [and, since my own house is on Midwood St., I have no particular ax to grind here–other than my admitted PLG boosterism].
As I’ve mentioned before, Rutland I has what is probably the most active LM/PLG block association.Here’s an article, from the June Lefferts Manor Echo, about one of the benefits of such a block association:
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Park Slope, while clearly the center of the universe, has nothing to do with this.
Also, if you prefer to live in Soho over virtually anywhere at this point, you might as well move into a suburban shopping mall. Yecch.
Don’t know the neighborhood so I can’t comment on the price, but this is a beauuuuutiful house. Very cool.
1:41, i completely agree. has everyone forgotten the old real estate adage: location, location, location? the amenities in PLG are NOT what they are in PS. Period. If you prefer PLG, great. But don’t try to pull the wool over anyone’s eyes by pretending it has the same value proposition as Park Slope.
This is an amazing house but it needs more bathrooms!!!!
its a priced a bit excessively considering the area (as discussed above, shopping, schools and the criminal element)