House of the Day: 72 Hicks Street
Recently reduced to $3,750,000 from a starting price of $4,995,000 earlier this year (with a couple of intermediate stops along the way), this gorgeous woodframe house at 72 Hicks Street in Brooklyn Heights must be coming into range for some well-heeled buyer. After all, this is one of the oldest houses in the Heights, dating…
Recently reduced to $3,750,000 from a starting price of $4,995,000 earlier this year (with a couple of intermediate stops along the way), this gorgeous woodframe house at 72 Hicks Street in Brooklyn Heights must be coming into range for some well-heeled buyer. After all, this is one of the oldest houses in the Heights, dating back to the 1820s, and it’s a 25-footer. On top of that, it looks extremely well-preserved. By comparison, Brown Harris still has this house at 19 Garden Place listed at $3,995,000. Which do you think is a better deal?
72 Hicks Street [Kevin Carberry] GMAP P*Shark
Also, as I mentioned yesterday, regardless of how much original construction and detail is removed, those involved will naturally try to minimize it.
There have been several houses in Park Slope and the Heights which have been stripped of beautiful and well-preserved interiors in order to create loft-like modernistic spaces. This house could be next, hence my sarcastic first posting.
I think it is a troubling trend. It is not just the one house featured here yesterday.
and should be an
Cobble…unfortunately with the density of NYC…there aren’t avaialbe tracts of land to build a modern townhouse. So one modifies and existing.
Yes, yes, I read that Dave, and I like modern design. I just find it odd to do that in a Brownstone.
coblehiller…i think that article said that there were no architectural detail left to begin with. That being the case, the modern design probably is the best way to proceed. Yes, that particular place felt cold and uninhabited but not poorly designed if I remember. It’s not my taste or preference but I’ve lived like that before. Now I want history, details and restoration (except for the kitchen and bathroom).
Well, you have to admit, z, it’s a little odd to take a Brownstone – essentially a period building and strip it down to a minimalist design.
That place really needed a rug and some art on the walls. it felt cold to me.
that modern building yesterday really got under sam’s skin.
I don’t think you can use the word “aesthetics” in any discussion of those three properties.
Sam: I got into a heated post over aesthics.
http://bstoner.wpengine.com/brownstoner/archives/2008/11/horror_show_fri.php#comments
Now that I scanned the previous post…it wasn’t even with derwood (sorry), it was with fsrq.
Can’t we just all get along.