House of the Day: 276 Berkeley Place
This knock-your-socks-off mansion at 276 Berkeley Place in Park Slope was on the market back in 2006 for $4,250,000 but never sold. Now the 36-foot-wide Romanesque Revival house, which is full of drool-worthy historic detail, is back on again—this time for $4,200,000. Given that it’s 9,000 square feet and 11 bedrooms, the price doesn’t seem…
This knock-your-socks-off mansion at 276 Berkeley Place in Park Slope was on the market back in 2006 for $4,250,000 but never sold. Now the 36-foot-wide Romanesque Revival house, which is full of drool-worthy historic detail, is back on again—this time for $4,200,000. Given that it’s 9,000 square feet and 11 bedrooms, the price doesn’t seem crazy to us, to the extent that buyers exist in that price range. Waddya think?
276 Berkeley Place [Corcoran] GMAP P*Shark
House of the Day: 276 Berkeley Place [Brownstoner]
I lived very near this house (and in Park Slope in general) for over 20 years. I now live in the Upper West Side. Let me tell you, I am DYING to go back to BK, and would love love love to live in this house. The prices in all neighborhoods of Manhattan are nuts, not to mention the taxes and maintenance for homes less than 1/4 this size. Plus, I miss the quiet, the great (and lower cost) shopping, the neighbors, the multi-culti, liberal, mom-and-pop feel of The Slope. If you can afford this place, grab it and don’t look back. If I win the lottery, though, it’s mine.
PS: I agree that I’d rather perform my bathroom manoeuvres in absolute private, down the hall from a bedmate. Fortunately, this place would afford one the luxury of going to another floor altogether to use the facilities. And who gives a rat’s butt if you don’t use all the rooms? Ever heard of storage? I would love to live in this glorious labyrinth.
NOP,
Oh, well. I guess my ploy to get you back to Brooklyn failed! It was worth a try!
🙂
That’s an idea, Brooklyn Greene. But co-housing implies sharing responsibilities — and I’m totally undomesticated. I could bring along my NY personal assistant, but she’d only boss everybody around, the way she does me! NOP
So it was that big house with no cornice. H’mmm…How was the location? Was the house ever cut up into apartments?
Sounds like it was interesting, the tour…wasn’t the tour on Saturday during the rain? I couldn’t make it but had wondered about the tour when I hear the upcoming weather report on Friday. I believe the Prospect Heights tour is this coming weekend. Someone wrote about it on Brownstoner but I can’t remember when it is exactly. I think Wasder posted the time. You’d think Jonathan et al might have a featured entry instead of simply putting the house tours on the “Weekend Events” grouping. Honestly, I think an actual brownstone house tour on a blog called “Brownstoner” might be worth its own entry.
BG…many of us went through the St Marks house on the CHN House Tour. The website sucks, It never had a cornice per the attached house next to it but needs work up there anyway.
NOP,
How ’bout we go in on this house together? There’s so much space, maybe it would work…”cohousing” on a differently scale. Wouldn’t that be great?!!! I guess it would be a little unconventional.
11217,
Yes Alice Tully was a real success! The renovations on the plaza are wonderful too. Do you perform? Where can we come hear you?
Dave,
Why would you go to one of these restaurants and expect to be understood in Japanese? My goodness! As you well know, and imply above, many, many of the City’s Japanese restaurants are owned and run by Chinese and others. PLUS, the level of MSG in some of these restaurants’ food is ridiculous…I’ve had an MSG-induced migraine often enough to have sworn off Japanese food in NYC except the best…or I’ll wait until we’re in San Francisco or something.
I’m not sure I was looking at the St. Mark’s Crown Heights house everyone was wowwing over. Is it that white house with no cornice? I went to the link you had on the Open Thread (rather, the “F-work Thread”). The realtor’s website had only 5 photos. I couldn’t see why everyone was drooling over it. There was no photo of a large staircase…nothing. The floorplans were too small to see. Maybe I had the wrong ad? I thought the house was ugly.
Look, regarding this House of the Day, I think it is very nice. I could live here but it would be fun to try it with a group of empty nesters. It would spectacular painted and wallpapered the way it was when it was built! The wallpaper would cost a fortunte though. All-in-all, the house of the day is n-o-t my taste at all but I can see the charm. Even though it would compound the heaviness of the interior, yes, I have to say, you might as well go all the way and decorate up to the eyeballs…carpet up the stairs, proper furniture, etc. Geesh! I’m getting anxious just thinking about the cost to decorate this house!
And the cleaning!!! Okay, that’s settled. No thanks no the house
BHO,
Sure, if houses in prime Park Slope were only $900,000 in 1987 (i.e. TWENTY-TWO years ago), why should $2-3.5 million be so shocking today? Listen, everything has gone up, up and up! College tuition and health insurance premiums have increased many more times than the possible upswing on the house above. And if you think tuition and health insurance are skewed comparisons, let me bring it down to a more mundane level. My weekly grocery shopping costs have probably gone up at LEAST by 3 times, possibly 4, 1987. I would be hard pressed to find anything that only *doubled* over these 22 years. Can’t think of anything. Of course, I don’t by chemical, factory food, Wunder Brot, etc. so maybe I’m out of touch with what cheap food costs but my impression of that kind of food is that it too has more than doubled, probably tripled over these years.
I used to pay, say, a dollar for things that are now $3+. Something that was $0.89 in 1987 is now $2.89. YOU do the math.
From another angle, we’ve been interested in having a prefab mod modular house installed in either upstate NY or the Berkshires. Guess, what, the better level is *not* cheap *at all*. You could easily end up spending half a million dollars on something not too extravagant. Building costs have simply gone up *that* much. It’s rather surprising that “they” can’t move lots of new homes but costs of new construction are still high.
***Someday bid half off peak taglines***
I can’t wait, should be a great concert.
Re. HOTD:
What a joint!
How could anyone possibly complain about it — if they could afford it? (With the exception of Brownstoners, of course!)
And by the looks of the house’s furnishings, the folks currently there live quite nicely, thank you.
Already have a ticket for the Schubert 8/Mahler Das Lied von der Erde on October 23rd, Delepp. 🙂