House of the Day: 14 Garden Place
We might as well start the year out with a bang…This four-story brownstone at 14 Garden Place in Brooklyn Heights is pretty spectacular. In fact, it looks about perfect. Beaucoup fireplaces and moldings, tasteful built-ins, high ceilings, updated kitchen, attractive backyard. Of course, the owners know what they’ve got and, at $4,700,000 (or $1,175 per…
We might as well start the year out with a bang…This four-story brownstone at 14 Garden Place in Brooklyn Heights is pretty spectacular. In fact, it looks about perfect. Beaucoup fireplaces and moldings, tasteful built-ins, high ceilings, updated kitchen, attractive backyard. Of course, the owners know what they’ve got and, at $4,700,000 (or $1,175 per square foot) have priced it accordingly high. It’s been on the market for more than two months now with no takers. Think that’ll change once the bonus money starts clearing?
14 Garden Place [Douglas Elliman] GMAP P*Shark
firstly, I think Biff and I would make splendid neighbors.
second, the treads and stringers (is that what people mean by runners?) should be painted. The risers can be left unpainted. The door casings should be painted. The wood joints in those curved arches were never meant to be exposed. However, the newel and handrail should be polished wood. and the doors themselves (not the frames) can be faux-grained or possibly varnished and rubbed if they are fine mahogany or walnut.
This is a fine house on a quality street.
I hope whoever buys it apprecites the old details and does not hire a fashionable architect to modernize the interior.
4.7 million seems like a ridiculous amount of money, but this is Brooklyn, the land where money is no object.
I don’t know what is ‘supposed’ to be done but the woodwork looks good in this one to me.
MM..perhaps you are right. There’s nothing indicated on the floorplan but looking at the photo of the library, it does look like there is a small balconey and those are french doors.
Maly, simple pleasures are like sexual favors, they are not to be denied.
“Isn’t the woodwork SUPPOSED to be painted in an Italianate house like this?”
Yeah, I wanted to ask that too.
I think Minard must have fainted…..figured he would surely have posted on this one by now.
This is one of the top 5 most coveted blocks in Brooklyn (as dictated by price). They probably will not get $4.7m, but they should get at least $3.8m.
Isn’t the woodwork SUPPOSED to be painted in an Italianate house like this?
That being said, I prefer unpainted woodwork and somewhat later houses, but IMO you should be true to the period.
Dave, it looks like there is either a small deck or at least a Juliette balcony beyond those French doors on the parlor level. Why have French doors, otherwise?
Dibs, you just lack the high-WASP gene that makes you happy through the paradox of wealth accumulation and self-denial. Shillstoner would understand why the lack of master bath and parlour-level deck make this house truly perfect. It even has a garden floor dining room.