House of the Day: 192 President Street
Compared to what other houses in Carroll Gardens have been listed at in recent months, 192 President Street strikes us as an interesting opportunity for someone who values historic detail and has the time and energy to put into a restoration. We like the grand scale of the parlor floor, the unusual limestone facade and…
Compared to what other houses in Carroll Gardens have been listed at in recent months, 192 President Street strikes us as an interesting opportunity for someone who values historic detail and has the time and energy to put into a restoration. We like the grand scale of the parlor floor, the unusual limestone facade and the intricate plaster moldings. In the right hands, this could really be something special. Think the asking price of $1,928,000 will be met?
192 President Street [Corcoran] GMAP P*Shark
Photo by Kate Leonova for PropertyShark
How do you folks figure $700K-$1.1M for a restoration of this property? Are you using goldleaf on every surface? Get real.
4:12 thats funny because if you look closely CG has more Brownstones than CH My Great grandfather actually built some of the houses on Clinton st and they built the same houses In both nabes. I would like to know are the blogers on here that bash everything but Park Slope getting paid?
Wow, amazing how many people don’t know Carroll Gardens but still want to make comments that demonstrate their lack of knowledge. It’s embarrassing for them.
This is one of the prime locations in Carroll Gardens, and the blocks between Clinton and Henry are arguably the best in the neighborhood (some may prefer Clinton/Court). The BQE really isn’t a factor here like it is another block down, because Henry Street is a giant barrier. President St. is nice because it’s a short walk to the F Train from here. There are lots of places advertised as Carroll Gardens that are in really crummy locations, but this is definitely not one of them.
$1.9 million is pretty expensive for a house that needs so much work. I’d guess to restore it would bring your purchase price up to $3 million which is way beyond my means anyway. But I have to agree with a poster above that this house seems like a much better deal than a $900,000 2 bedroom floor through, which is what I see advertised (although not necessarily getting) in the neighborhood.
3:01 – whatever. the point is it’s hideous.
Wrong. They are not the same thing. The buildings and complete “look” of Cobble Hill is completely different from that of CG.
I don’t think the facade would have been limestone from that period. I think it is marble. Marble was sometimes used in both houses and churches in the 1870-1899 period, but it was rare. The marble would indicate an unusually pretentious house.
It is enormous, so if you always wanted an enormous marble palazetti now is the time to sell that 2-bedroom co-op in the Upper West Side.
There is something peculiar going on at the cornice level too, but it can be fixed. It all can be fixed, doesn’t matter if the bathrooms are from the 1950’s or the 1980’s they would all hve to go. sometimes the less work a house has had the easier and cheaper to update it.
For those that don’t like Carroll Gardens i Guess you dont like cobble hill either because they are the same exact thing.
how does halvsies work on something like this? who polices how much each family spends on renovation? it seems like a race to the bottom b/c the less you spend, the bigger your profit when you take half on the sale. would the upper duplex put half even though the lower duplex is more desirable? also, the contract to do that would be a pain and you would have to HAVE $1mn each b/c no bank would finance an arrangement like that. maybe you’re a litle too creative on real estate, no?
3.01 – limestone is no more of a “veneer” than brownstone is – you know that right?