House of the Day: 180 Washington Park
If you’re a Wall Street Journal reader, you may already be familiar with this new listing at 180 Washington Park in Fort Greene—the 22-foot brownstone was featured when it hit the market earlier this month with a price tag of $2,750,000, most likely because it was owned by Spike Lee back in the 1990s. We’re…
If you’re a Wall Street Journal reader, you may already be familiar with this new listing at 180 Washington Park in Fort Greene—the 22-foot brownstone was featured when it hit the market earlier this month with a price tag of $2,750,000, most likely because it was owned by Spike Lee back in the 1990s. We’re certainly digging the location, size and type of the house. There’s also tons of original detail that is right up our alley. The renovation, though, feels too over-the-top to us. Call us old-fashioned, but the glitziness and polish of the whole thing feels a little out of place for Fort Greene. And that yard? What were they thinking? We suspect the sellers would have been better served by a more understated approach, especially when it comes to reselling in these non-boom times.
180 Washington Park [Corcoran] GMAP P*Shark
shillstoner, so would you rather have the place torn down because it wasn’t going to be used in the same exacting standards? I live in a 1875 mansion which was converted to a schoolhouse in the 1930s and converted to a coop in the 1980s. A 21,000 square foot house is not really a good use of your carbon foot print. This house has had many usefull lives.
And my venereal disease goes untreated because penicillin was not invented at the time my house was built.
bxgrl, I think I’ve seen some of them wandering Court Street.
I also get carried around the neighborhood in a sedan chair manned by 4 men in nothing but loincloths.
I do have a lolling sofa and I get naked guys to feed me peeled grapes and fan me with elephant ear palm leaves. We share an occasional dose of snuff as well. Antique Chinese snuff bottles, not those cheap Victorian Endglish ones.
pooh- that’s nothing, bitter retort. I dug up the bodies of the original house servants and keep them in the apartment upstairs because they were original to the house and add so much to the historical feel of the servants quarters.
No bidets, shillstoner. Now you’ve gone too far.
Doublesinksinbedstuy would be appropriate. i’m sure my brownstone never came with them.
Oh, and btw, I still have original gas and gas/electric antique light fixtures but alas, all converted to electricity.
We house our servants in the upstairs laundry room.
And have turned our kitchen into an ensuite bath with stainless steel walls.
I think Hyperventilator works too.
FYI- I actually ripped out my modernized bathroom to put in a clawfoot and antique furniture.