House of the Day: 132 Rutland Road
This three-story brownstone at 132 Rutland Road is a charmer. In the same family for decades, the 3,000-square-foot house is chock full of original details, as befits a house in Lefferts Manor. There’s mention of a large eat-in kitchen but no photos, so we won’t give it the benefit of the doubt. The asking price…
This three-story brownstone at 132 Rutland Road is a charmer. In the same family for decades, the 3,000-square-foot house is chock full of original details, as befits a house in Lefferts Manor. There’s mention of a large eat-in kitchen but no photos, so we won’t give it the benefit of the doubt. The asking price of $1,100,000 may be too high above the psychological barrier of a million bucks. What do you think?
132 Rutland Road [Brooklyn Properties] GMAP P*Shark
FLH,
I think the interior style was called “Free Classic” when the houses were built. This was one of the first “modern” styles in that it recognized the existence of central heating, which had become common a generation or so earlier. Rooms could flow into each other–they didn’t have to be closed off to be heated with a stove or fireplace. Spaces could be divided with just airy columns or screens. Many houses in PLG (and other areas built up late 1890s through 1910s) lack the side hall and straight staircase of older brownstones, making them seem wider inside than their actual 20 feet [lthough, from what I can see of the entrance hall screen, this house appears to have a side hall].
I have to say Bedford Stuyvesant is lacking with parks we have few squares but no really nice park. there are horrible blocks that I wish could be turned into parkland especially near Atlantic and Boys and Girls HS…
Fred……do you know the details on that place you’re talking about on Decatur??? Address, or what it looked like??? I can’t remeber having seen that one and that’s about what I paid for mine.
cwbuecheler The landmarked area of Bedford Stuyvesant today is Stuyvesant Heights but that will be growing north to Madison. North of Fulton near Nostrand stop on the A/C will also be landmarked but as Bedford Historic district. Your wandering in the right place. If you see a deal there I would scoop it up… Neighbors tell me that 109 MacDonough will be on the market soon a great 5 story brownstone with all the bells in whistles since it was built for one of the developers of Stuyvesant Heights.
I agree on the affordability Amzi. I’m a big fan of CH and BS, and I know you could find a place this nice (or a 4 story) for under a million there. I was really in love with an amazingly detailed three-story place on Decatur and Stuyvesant that went for 830k last year. But you couldn’t get to prospect park in 5 minutes walking. As for A/C vs. B/Q, hopstop has the B beat the A to W. 4th by 6 minutes. And that, clearly, is worth $250,000 amortized over 30 years of commuting.
Biff, excellent point as always.
Most houses with an English basement level, have a full cellar below.
FLH is right–all the houses at this end of Rutland have full cellars under the garden/basement floors; the smaller houses further east on this block (and on the eastern ends of Lincoln, Maple, and Midwood II) have English basements.
Bob Marvin –
Ah, I see. Didn’t realize there was a lincoln road entrance.
Amzi Hill –
Is Stuyvesant Heights the landmarked area of Bed Stuy I’ve been wandering around lately, or someplace else?