House of the Day: 491 East 17th Street
This 3,500-square-foot one-family house at 491 East 17th is advertised as being on “the best block in Landmark Ditmas Park.” If that’s true, we suspect that this is one of the less good-looking places on the street due, in large part, to the brick addition on the front of the house. The interior, however, is…
This 3,500-square-foot one-family house at 491 East 17th is advertised as being on “the best block in Landmark Ditmas Park.” If that’s true, we suspect that this is one of the less good-looking places on the street due, in large part, to the brick addition on the front of the house. The interior, however, is very charming. And, considering that the house across the street sold for $1,900,000 last year, the asking price of $1,300,000 for this place may look interesting for those with a hankering for the Victorian nabe.
491 East 17th Street [Mary Kay Gallagher] GMAP P*Shark
Update: Closed on June 29 at $1,265,000, 97%/-$35K of the asking price of $1.3M.
1st place: Anon-2008-02-19-09:54PM predicted it exactly: “This one has that ugly enclosed porch but is priced about 35K over what it will go for.”
2nd place: Anon-2008-02-17-08:27PM for their prediction of $1,275,000, only $10K off the mark.
Everyone keeps arguing its style is Victorian at the least, but the style is just as much Crafts/Mission as it is Victorian. It’s totally transitional.
Many or most of the truly old houses all along Flatbush and in these areas were torn down in the early 20th century. I’ve never seen any house on the market in Ditmas over the last few years that was older than the late 1890’s and the great majority were built after 1910. The area was all farmland during the height of the Victorian era.
I vote with 3:02 on this one. Victorian architecture, as a term, refers to a plethora of styles popular during the reign of Queen Victoria. The popularity of these various styles – ranging from Gothic revival, neo-tudor, second Empire, stick, shingle, Eastlake, etc… continued through the first decade of the twentieth century, unil Arts and Crafts/Mission/Bunglalow replaced the revival mentality with a new aesthetic. Homes built between 1900 and 1910 sometime incorporate elements of both, and are best described as transitional. I find a lot of this, especially with respect to interiors, in Ditmas Park/Victorian Flatbush/Flatbush.
turn of the century – it all changed, people got a new attitude and so did the architecture.
guys, a colonial revival or tudor or queen anne or gothic revival built during this period is a victorian. The whole nabe is victorian. Again whether victoria reigned or not. It’s a descriptive term of style. Are you seriously going to tell me that an architect who planned a house in 1900 as a victorian but was finished in 1904 after she died is no longer a victorian? Or planned in 1907 as my house was built and is a colonial revival.
and yes the tudors are victorians just like the colonial ones are and gothic and romanesque. Its a revivalist period.
and yes neighborhood names change. This is ditmas park which is part of victorian flatbush which is flatbush. All true.
The home is described as a “Unique home with a Side Entrance”
But if you look at the windows in the front they do look original.
Where is Erin when you need her?
This clearly isn’t a Victorian house, but MKG hasn’t described it as such, so no problems there. I think she knows her subject matter.
What a minute – this guy is now mixing up tudor and victorian?
yes I can see how loose you are with language. look up “events of 1901”, not 1903.
of course if you’re a broker you can make it up as you go along, just like you can make up neighborhood names and square footage.