House of the Day: 491 1st Street
While the listing is woefully lacking in interior photos, we’d be willing to bet that there are some pretty nice old bones inside 491 1st Street. (The listing cites “pocket doors, shutters, stained glass, front & back bay windows, parquet floors and woodwork.”) The four-story brownstone is lovely from the outside and happens to sit…
While the listing is woefully lacking in interior photos, we’d be willing to bet that there are some pretty nice old bones inside 491 1st Street. (The listing cites “pocket doors, shutters, stained glass, front & back bay windows, parquet floors and woodwork.”) The four-story brownstone is lovely from the outside and happens to sit in the middle of a row of equally charming houses. The house is a slightly smaller scale (18 feet wide, small top floor) than many of the houses that grab headlines in this part of town. Luckily, then, it’s also priced lower at an even $2,000,000. The big question, then, is what the renovation will run? If you can do it for $300,000 or $400,000, then this is probably a decent deal. If you’re talking $700,000 or $800,000, then this is a tougher sell.
491 1st Street [Townsley & Gay] GMAP P*Shark
Photo by Kate Leonova for PropertyShark
A great house, not too big, not too small, traditional layout with the kitchen and dining room on the garden level and the parlors above. The fourth floor is perfectly usable. the front windows are low belly windows, but the space is fine inside. It is not storage. Have any of you ever even been inside an historic house?
I also like that it has not been cut up into the usual slummy apartments.
“I’m guessing 1.7, if the inside isn’t a disaster zone.”
Agreed, since it’s 3-stories and 18′ wide.
Won’t even get a good contractor to change a lightbulb in this house for less than $1ml. Whatever, you think it will be double it, and you might be close. And that’s before teh architect. Plus, commodities very expensive.
I see a tree out front (hasn’t yet leafed out in the pics).
I think you’re looking at the wrong house, 3:16.
The railings are gorgeous. I just walked by this house yesterday.
Bidding war…
me likey
a lot
3:00, I respectfully disagree. The front area is all cement, the staircase looks ugly and it looks a bit plain, esp. given the true 4-story houses in the ‘hood. I’m guessing 1.7, if the inside isn’t a disaster zone.
And, if you get a parking space out front, you wont have to move it all summer!
It’s really three floors. The fourth floor is what you see in that tiny cornice window. Those spaces are attics.