House of the Day: 1809 Glenwood Road
It takes a little vision to look past some of the aesthetics of this listing at 1809 Glenwood Road, but if you look closely you can see the downers are mostly skin deep. Remove the tacky furniture and occasional strip of track lighting, and this three-bedroom house would show pretty nicely. It’s got some very…
It takes a little vision to look past some of the aesthetics of this listing at 1809 Glenwood Road, but if you look closely you can see the downers are mostly skin deep. Remove the tacky furniture and occasional strip of track lighting, and this three-bedroom house would show pretty nicely. It’s got some very nice bones in the form of front-hall columns, fireplaces and built-in cabinetry. Not so sure about the price though: It’s asking $1,275,000. Reactions?
1809 Glenwood Road [Ditmas Estates] GMAP P*Shark
No, I think 200K is way too much for a 6 bedroom stand alone house near a subway in NYC Williamsburgguy.
Is the picture on the right above the viewing room for the body, or just where you sign the guestbook? Sheesh this looks like a funeral home. Once again a mediocre house in a medicore neighborhood asking Beverly Hills prices. In the real workd, this is a $200K house.
I will say, given the plethora of gorgeous exteriors in DP, this house is far from pristine and definitely lacking in curb appeal, IMO. I agree… thanks to the “renovations”, much more BP than DP. Although BP had some nice Victorians at one time, too… entire nabes with swanky names to match Ditmas Park. Those enclaves just didn’t survive… In fact, there were many such nabes throughout mid and southern Brooklyn. You see the random Victorian house here and there, and forget that they were often part of a much grander neighborhood of Victorian homes that simply did not stand the test of time…
Stringer – you can’t get a house (a house, not an apt.) for this price closer to Manhattan – not in a half-way gentrified neighborhood, whatever that’s worth. Prices are fair considering you can’t get anything with nearly as much space for less than $500k more closer in (in a desirable nabe).
I grew up in Marine Park and remember the Wykoff-Bennett House on Kings Highway and the old farm-house on East 36th Street bet. Fillmore and Ave S. There are a few others in the Marine Park, Madison, and Midwood. Great examples of colonial-era Dutch architecture. http://bstoner.wpengine.com/brownstoner/archives/marine_park/
These houses were mostly built in the first decade of the twentieth century when what was then farmland was subdivided. The Village of Flatbush, centered around the intersection of Flatbush and Church avenues, dates from the mid-17th century and still has a couple of 18th century buildings – the Flatbush Reformed Dutch Church and Erasmus Hall Academy.
Does anyone know when these homes were built? My guess is that it would have to be turn-of-the-century.
“Before it was incorporated into Brooklyn City in 1894, Flatbush described both the Town of Flatbush, incorporating a large swath of central Kings County extending east to the Queens County border, and the Village of Flatbush, formerly the heart of the current community. Many of the remaining early Dutch structures are in the Flatlands and Marine Park neighborhoods.”- Wikipedia
I like the name Edwardian Flatbush, has an implication of ostentatious grandeur
The house is in the landmarked Fiske Terrace-Midwood park Historic District. Glenwood Road is part of Flatbush Malls, with a planted median down the middle. It’s probably 6 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, hence the discrepancy of numbers across various sources.
My guess: $1.1M.