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
As an architectural term, used loosely, Victorian usually encompasses the Edwardian period, also known as transitional, leading upt to Arts and Crafts.
No, I don’t need a geography lesson. I realize DPW is north of WM. It is, however, contiguous with WM, hence the trickle down in to DPW. I know the boundaries of the Victorian Flatbush neighborhoods, including those that are now defunct, quite well, thank you.
10:15 needs a geography lesson. Ditmas Park West is betweeen Cortelyou and Newkirk. West Midwood is between Foster and Avenue H. Not quite ‘nabes along Avenue J.’
9.14 – I doubt he means that, most gangs in NY are latino.
Victorian architecture encompasses Edwardian?
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There are not many Orthodox families that buy in Landmarked neighborhoods, such as PPS and Ditmas Park. You see more in the nabes along Avenue J, particularly West Midwood and Ditmas Park West. And they tend to be modern Orthodox.
There are not many Orthodox families that buy in Landmarked neighborhoods, such as PPS and Ditmas Park. You see more in the nabes along Avenue J, particularly West Midwood and Ditmas Park West. And they tend to be modern Orthodox, not ultra.
I’m amazed at the lack of vision some of you are showing towards this house. While it would not be cheap, the bricked enclosure could be turned back into an open porch. Originally it would have come across the front and wrapped around to the entrance halfway down the side. It would probably cost $100-150,000 but with that one change you will have instantly restored curb appeal to the house. And what is now a weak link would become a wonderful asset to what many believe is among the best blocks in Victorian Flatbush.
Most homes in Ditmas Park are technically “Colonial Revival.”
Victorian architecture encompasses the Edwardian era. Within the term Victorian, there are also many different individual styles – Eastlake, stick style, transitional, carpenter Gothic, etc…
The far more attractive porch enclosure belonging to the neighborhood house is almost certainly not original, either. I have seen quite a few 1920s enclosures that eschew red-brick and opted for panes set against the original wood frame and columns. A far more successful form of enclosure. So successful that many people mistake them for being original (there are very few original porch enclosures, but they do exist). Even Landmarks distinguishes between “historicizing” and “non-historicizing” porch enclosures. Consult the application for Sunnyside Gardens,available online.