House of the Day: 205 12th Street
We love the feel of this petite woodframe at 205 12th Street in the South Slope. Unfortunately, a property that didn’t sell a year ago at $1,450,000 is unlikely to sell today for $1,350,000. Still, these two front rooms on the parlor floor have such a great vibe that we’re almost ready to forget the…
We love the feel of this petite woodframe at 205 12th Street in the South Slope. Unfortunately, a property that didn’t sell a year ago at $1,450,000 is unlikely to sell today for $1,350,000. Still, these two front rooms on the parlor floor have such a great vibe that we’re almost ready to forget the fact that the house clocks in at less than 1,500 square feet. Or that there’s a larger place a couple of blocks away for only $1,095,000.
205 12th Street [Brooklyn Properties] GMAP P*Shark
Open House Picks 2/15/08 [Brownstoner]
Achingly lovely little place with a tender hand and eye needed, but 1.35 million? Probably about 3 hundie over.
Sam, need is a funny thing indeed, but, yes.
And damnit, no, this is NOT Park Slope.
Well, now that Park Slope is pretty much the new murder capital of Brooklyn, expect all these Slope houses to come down substantially in price…
would someone seriously pay 1.3 million to live between 3rd and 4th ave?
seriously
i would live there but not for that much.
All that decorative molding does not scream farmhouse. In fact, in the lower slope through to Gowanus, there was a farm about every three blocks, according to an old map I’ve seen. These farmers ran essentially from the Gowanus or the bay up the hill in long narrow slivers. Thus, between what is now 9th street and the PPE, there were probably no more than three or four actual farmhouses. In 1838, the City of Brooklyn mapped out a street grid for the area and by 1850, many of the farms had been subdivided and sold off to speculators. The chances that any frame with a porch in the S. Slope was actually used as a farmhouse is slim to none, no matter what the realtors say.
“Park Slope Shores” is good but “Park Slope Riviera” is a more up-market name for the neighborhood formerly known a Red Hook. Part of the plan would be to rename that stretch of the BQE “The Corniche”.
Ridiculous. This place has been on the market an awfully long time – price is delusional.
I must say, a pet peeve of mine is brokers who describe a wood-frame house as a “farmhouse.”
Unless you own one of those old Dutch houses out in Flatlands, Gravesend, etc., take a hike.
I thought that was the case bowl…it just looked like those pics were of the original walls. A lot of the homes built in the late 1800’s actually only had small chimeys and used wood stoves…no fireplaces.
Welcome, yet again, to Park Slope Shores (see Friday’s open house thread).
Boxed in chimney looks weird. Mantels must have been ripped off and the brick in bad shape.