House of the Day: 177 St. James Place
177 St. James Place is one of a pair of narrow Romanesque Revival houses designed in 1888 by the prominent Brooklyn architect Mercein Thomas for a man named Russell Engs, who resided at 86 Cambridge Place (which has been on and off the market for years). Now the 12-foot-wide brick house is on the market…
177 St. James Place is one of a pair of narrow Romanesque Revival houses designed in 1888 by the prominent Brooklyn architect Mercein Thomas for a man named Russell Engs, who resided at 86 Cambridge Place (which has been on and off the market for years). Now the 12-foot-wide brick house is on the market for $1,150,000. Since the house is only 2,440-square-feet, it’s not a bargain on a size basis, but it is a chance to own a real charmer of a house in Clinton Hill for a not-huge price tag. Has anyone looked at it yet?
177 St. James Place [Fred Sanders] GMAP P*Shark
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You go girl!
Sam:
Bigger is Better
– spoken like a true woman who likes to drive a caddy.
Fireplaces are sublime. Everyone should heat with wood. When trees are cut from a properly managed woodlot, wood is a very environmentally friendly source of fuel. Firewood is renewable and readily available. It has a low relative carbon footprint because wood smoke releases the same amount of carbon that would be released by the natural decomposition of the tree if it fell in the forest. Plus it smells great.
Just drove past this house. IT is pretty cool and the block is nice.
The rooms in a 12 foot wide house are only 12 feet wide if it has no party walls. It’s more likely that these rooms are 9.5 or 10 feet wide max. So the only way this house is 2440sf over 4 floors is if it’s 4 12×50 floor plates. Into which you are squeezing a center staircase. It would be like living in a stack of subway cars. The idea that you could probably pick up the mansion at 1094 park place for the same price makes the pricing on this preposterous.
I understand what makes fireplaces attractive to people. I’m not an idiot. They’re just not attractive to *me*. Yeesh.
And I even said I liked this one! 🙂
Especially an incredibly eensy weensy little house like this.
-spoken like a true Cadillac driver!
Ignore my advise if you wish, but this house would be a killer bachelor pad. The cuteness of it alone would turn most dates on and they would be putty in your hands by the time they got to the leaded-glass sash upstairs.
the mews houses in cobble hill go for less than that and while smaller (but wider!), they are zoned for ps29. I dont think this is worth the same/more as those.
If you really don’t know what makes fireplaces attractive then you’ve never had a nice fire in a fireplace or you’re just a, well, never mind.