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
There’s a kitchen right off the formal dining room. There is also a kitchen in the English basement, so that looks like a separate unit. Same goes for the top floor. Odd layout unless you need to house the help and the in-laws.
Unless this were purchased by a flipper, I wonder if this listing does not reflect a true intent to sell, but rather is designed as an ego boost/investment check.
You’re right dittoburg…it sits right next to the giant 24K gold boulder they dug up.
I just read the desciption more carefully.
This was designed by CPH Gilbert. That’s hot stuff.
He was the architect to the stars back when.
The knotty pine panelling is definitely original, it was quite expensive because the knots are small and they
boards had to be carefully matched to present an even patterning. I have seen the same panelling in CPH Gilbert mansions in Manhattan.
Definitely to die, not your average Brooklyn brownstone.
I heard they discovered oil under the back garden.
This is a joke, ya?
Weird layout, painted trim (which I like, but for this price) 3 kitchens…no 1/2 bath on parlor floor but 2 on the garden floor (that is a full bath off the hall, isn’t it? Formal dining room one floor up from the kitchen? I guess you’ll have to have serving maids.
You can always rent out the English Basement and the top floor to help meet the mortgage.
Unless this was purchased with the intent to flip, I wonder if the owner is listing this as an ego boost or to test their investment.
Finally a price that even Brownstoner thinks is absurd! The seller should get some kind of medal–the Brownstoner Golden Cahones.