House of the Day: 786 Putnam Avenue
This house at 786 Putnam Avenue is a real charmer. Tons of original detail, including some beautiful parquet floors and a killer staircase. The house is also located in just outside Stuyvesant Heights, the longtime-landmarked section of Bed Stuy with one of the most incredible and well-preserved stock of old houses anywhere. The house is…
This house at 786 Putnam Avenue is a real charmer. Tons of original detail, including some beautiful parquet floors and a killer staircase. The house is also located in just outside Stuyvesant Heights, the longtime-landmarked section of Bed Stuy with one of the most incredible and well-preserved stock of old houses anywhere. The house is only three stories, though, so it’ll be interesting to see if it fetches its asking price of $799,000. We bet it’ll get pretty close.
786 Putnam Avenue [Douglas Elliman] GMAP P*Shark
rf, try and keep up. In my original post i was cionfusing this with Hancock Street. 🙂
Dave is right – as per google maps, walking directions say it’s .5 miles in 10 minutes to go from 786 putnam to utica/fulton
Posted by: dirty_hipster at September 24, 2009 2:52 PM
DIBS said it was a 6-minute walk in his original post.
I agree, from the pic the brownstone facade looks nice, entryway too. I’m not sure but is there carpetting on the stoop??? Something greenish it looks like.
> Snark, care to weigh in on the blue faux antiquing job
Ghastly but should be fixable. I agree that the kitchen looks to be cobbled (no offense, ch) together from spare parts. Not digging the bathroom fixtures. The stairs, mantles and facade look nice though.
I’m more of a Kohler man, myself, Pete.
CGar…mine is on the parlour floor. It is more than enough space where it is. Essentially, it is fit inside that side room where they have the bathroom on the parlour floor. So it’s about 7′ X 12′. The double doors are still there like they are in the parlour photo here.
I use the adjacent back part of the parlour as the TV/ family room and the front parlour is so long that there’s more than enough space for the formal living room arounsd the fireplace and a formal dining table for 6. It’s a round table so it tucks into the corner nicely and I pull it out and add the leaf when i need to.
It works quite well as long as you have a 20′ wide house
oh, a toto toilet… great for friends of dorothy.
but the sofa facing the bed ..must be exibitionists.
This is a good read on the state of the Manhattan Market:
http://www.urbandigs.com/2009/09/looking_at_todays_manhattan_ma.html
No one has commented about the 5 working woodburning & gas fireplaces. That is awesome and took a lot of money to accomplish.