House of the Day: 315 Garfield Place
Holy Cow! The owner of 315 Garfield Place in Park Slope wants to party like it’s early 2007. The oversized brownstone (it weighs in at about 6,700 square feet) admittedly looks flawless, but we can’t quite get our arms around the asking price of $8,500,000. According to DOB filings, the seller started renovating the one-family…
Holy Cow! The owner of 315 Garfield Place in Park Slope wants to party like it’s early 2007. The oversized brownstone (it weighs in at about 6,700 square feet) admittedly looks flawless, but we can’t quite get our arms around the asking price of $8,500,000. According to DOB filings, the seller started renovating the one-family house a month after purchasing it in October 2006 for $3,275,550. (The application cites a project cost of just $75,000, but it’s common practice to understate this number.) Still, the market now can’t be any higher than it was two years ago, and the seller’s looking to get a mark-up of more than $5 million. Huh?
315 Garfield Place [Brown Harris Stevens] GMAP P*Shark
I have to disagree with the posters that are disparaging the design of the house. The front door, like the panelling, looks original to me. Painted on the outside, rubbed finish on the inside. Exquisite. This is a connoisseur’s house.
The price tag does seem outlandish but the place is a gilded-era, limestone-fronted mansion with a pedigree. It’s in a league of its own. One thing is for sure, it hit the market at a really bad moment. wall streeters are reaching for their smelling salts, not their checkbooks to buy trophy houses.
A small kitchenette off a main dining room is not uncommon for a house this size. If you were hosting a formal dinner party it would serve as a final staging area before the food went out to guests.
I’m assuming the top floor kitchen is for the help. If you can buy a house like this you more than likely would have live-in help.
Seriously killer house even though the pricing still has me shaking my head.
Is Park Slope the new Upper East Side?
Knotty pine? For $8 mil? Yeah, right.
this house is beautiful, gorgeous. not too much space at all. i love the layout. the price is outrageous. maybe the owner worked for Lehman and needs the cash and thinks this will save his/her retirement?
The white door does look ridiculous. Get some Hollandlac Brilliant Black on there!!!!
HOLY SHITE That front door is so ugly and out of place. The person who is responsible for that should be spanked, and hard.
“Definitely to die, not your average Brooklyn brownstone.”
Agreed, but still overpriced by at least 50%, no?
No doubt the house is gorgeous but, the pricing is out of control. Shame on the agents.