House of the Day: 242 Washington Avenue
We had already started to write up 242 Washington Avenue as a House of the Day when it hit us: We’ve been inside that house. We were guests at a lovely al fresco dinner party last summer. In fact, Mrs. B had just been talking about how the owner’s duplex would make a good interiors…
We had already started to write up 242 Washington Avenue as a House of the Day when it hit us: We’ve been inside that house. We were guests at a lovely al fresco dinner party last summer. In fact, Mrs. B had just been talking about how the owner’s duplex would make a good interiors post. Given the conflict of interest, we’ll steer clear of opining about the $2,300,000 asking price, and just say that the owner’s duplex of this five-story, 5,500-square-foot house is really nicely done in a simple but elegant manner. We’ve never seen the upper three rental units, but judging from the photos they’re not as nice. They do, as the listing points out, generate over $50,000 a year in income. This’ll be an interesting one to watch.
242 Washington Avenue [Corcoran] GMAP P*Shark
Sure…a new cornice would look great!
Add another 60k onto the pricetag for that!
Or the average salary for three Clinton Hill residents!!!
NO PROBLEMO!
Of course there should be a cornice below the Mansard. The whole facade is turned to crap because of the lack of that feaure. It looks to me that the cornice was removed when the top floor windows were elongated and theur sills lowered. This poor old house was just exploited for maximum commercial return as most of these old trashed houses were in these former slum neighborhoods.
The fact that demented yuppies are now paying millions for these denatured and abused buildings that need hundreds of thousands of dollars of repairs to bring them up even to a decent standard of safety and hygiene is the joke that i have stopped finding funny.
I don’t think a cornice would even fit in the thin space between dormer windows and row of windows below. That’s why I think that mansard roof and its windows look kind of weird and are a later addition.
I tell you, for brokers, this site is like porn. They can’t get enough of it. They’re constantly reading it and making comments. I know this for an absolute fact, but I cannot say why because I’ll give myself away. Why else do you think they all advertise on this site?
This blog is smoking crack…
It’s not a dump for goodness sake! It’s just that the two houses on either side are both brownstones acting as apt bldgs and at some point in the past have had their facades “modernized”, aka stripped of all detail. This is also a very elegant block of Washington Ave. Jeez, there are so many comments on this thread by people who obviously know nothing about the neighborhood, never mind brownstone architecture.
The one thing that would instantly improve the appearance of this house would be recreating the cornice that gives definition to the brownstone facade by separating it from the slate mansard roof above.
THE POWER OF BROWNSTONER!! Corc takes down this listing to fix the pictures. Corc slashes the obnoxiously bogus price of the Carroll Gardens HOTD after a few days and over 250 posts. Let’s keep it up! Keep these brokers on their toes! Make em’ work.
One would not need to take the listing DOWN to put up new photos, btw.
Any other guesses?
From the outside it looks like a dump sitting between two even divier looking dumps.
Can we just pull back and see how ugly this is?
How can anyone believe that this is worth more than s million dollars? It is an eyesore.