House of the Day: 141 Lincoln Place
Located across the street from the bordello-turned-condo, 141 Lincoln Place is a Greek Revival Neo Grec brownstone that just hit the market with a price tag of $2,595,000. The recently renovated two-family house has the added bonus of sitting on an extra deep lot. (We wish they’d included a photo of the garden!) Anyway, the…
Located across the street from the bordello-turned-condo, 141 Lincoln Place is a Greek Revival Neo Grec brownstone that just hit the market with a price tag of $2,595,000. The recently renovated two-family house has the added bonus of sitting on an extra deep lot. (We wish they’d included a photo of the garden!) Anyway, the asking price is definitely less than it would have been six months or a year ago, but whether it’s low enough to move remains to be seen. What do you think?
141 Lincoln Place [Corcoran] GMAP P*Shark
Kreskin, you’ve done it again!
I predict this place will sell for $2.325 million.
I went and saw the house and thought it was incredibly beautiful. I don’t know what the two posters above me are talking about. To each his own, though.
And I had a viewing of the house a couple years ago, I’m guessing when the house belonged to its former owners, and it was A MESS. If you all had seen what this house used to look like, you’d be more pleased.
Also, I think the “gray putty” and “chewed by a dog” comments were a little cruel.
I checked out the Open House on Sunday, November 23 and was similarly disappointed. The house was fine but certainly not as advertised. And the realtor was not very helpful either- when I inquired about the height of the ceiling she was cluseless (even though it was listed on the brochure). Also I asked about the floor on the parlor level and got the same clueless look, even though I tripped on the pocket door track on the floor. I then realized that what I was looking at was the sub-floor. Some very poor, very obvious patch jobs on the woodwork and extremely poor condition on the exterior. The missing posts on the staircase were equally unforgivable. Could be a beautiful house, but if this is a “complete renovation” I would hate to see what a fixer-upper looks like.
Did anyone go to the open house? I would love to hear others’ comments. Hope people come back to this thread.
I went and was disappointed. It’s been a while since I’ve encountered such false advertising. “Loving restoration” means doors patched with gray putty to fill numerous gouges, and hung in an amateur manner with cheap hinges. Only 2-3 rooms had original inlaid floors, all others were new floors or subfloors (contrary to listing description). First two floors appeared to have original staircase (many spindles missing) but remaining staircase had been replaced and painted. The woodwork throughout much of the house looked as though it had been chewed by a dog. “Luxurious central AC” means three 4-inch diameter holes punched vertically into select walls. The main bathroom has to be completely re-done since the choice of tiles is very personal and customized, and unlikely to appeal to most buyers. The facade needs tons of work and there are missing spindles on the ironwork above the lintel. The banister has huge rusty holes. I was really disappointed, given the hyperbole in the listing. The only plus is the long lot.
So the neighbor of this HOTD is adding a glass extension, as profiled by Brownstoner?
http://bstoner.wpengine.com/brownstoner/archives/2008/10/a_sexy_behind_f.php
No qualms here about the school digression. For some, schools rank right up there with mortgage payments and recessed lighting when making a real estate decision.
I’m a couple of years out of date, but we had a great experience with 282. All my kids are graduates. All came away with good educations and went on to top rated schools elsewhere. Some of their teachers were the finest one could hope for. (To be fair, not all were above average, but that’s often the case.) In retrospect, what’s most important is that for all the kids, the introduction to what turned out to become their most satisfying subject/ability/interest years later came from a particular teacher or program at 282.
Added bonus: we never had to explain to the kids why we lied about our address to get into 321.
The house is 18.5 wide. It last traded for $1.35 million in June 2004.
North Slope has better transportation, Center Slope has the better school. People choose what’s important to them, so yes, it is all relative, and it’s a very personal decision. No need to constantly argue about which part of the freaking Slope is better or worse.
As a Maclaran-pushing mom of two who lives in the North Slope, I’ll answer the question about PS 282, on 6th Ave between Berkeley and Lincoln. My daughter is actually in the pre-K there. The school has a lot going for it, including decent test scores and classes that are not overcrowded (unlike PS 321). But it also has a reputation for placing too much emphasis on discipline and, well, test scores. It is also not racially diverse. The pre-K and gifted & talented classes skew the numbers, but in grades 1-5, the school is overwhelmingly African-American and, therefore, not reflective of the make-up of the surrounding neighborhood (which is overwhelmingly white).