House of the Day: 491 Henry Street
This ain’t no regular townhouse. 491 Henry Street is a Greek Revival mansion with 50 feet of frontage on Henry Street and old-school features to die for. The three-family home also has enough room in the rear to park four cars. It’s not entirely clear to us how many square feet the house is, but…
This ain’t no regular townhouse. 491 Henry Street is a Greek Revival mansion with 50 feet of frontage on Henry Street and old-school features to die for. The three-family home also has enough room in the rear to park four cars. It’s not entirely clear to us how many square feet the house is, but let’s hope there’s a lot given that the asking price for this puppy is $7,000,000, or almost twice what it would cost you to buy the Lamm Institute.
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I’m beginning to suspect Mr. Butler is overcompensating for something with the CotD and HotD.
Oh well, maybe we can have a realistic discussion about the remaining six that get posted this week.
I just find the BIG DEAL to be so irrelevant to the overall market. I realize it will always be what Curbed and the NYT RE section will focus on, but one thing I appreciate about BSer is the listings are *usually* plausible.
Robin Leach and Cribs and a host of mediocrity will ALAWAYS be around to cover baronal palaces ad nauseum. Just a complete waste having two of these on the same day.
I don’t think plutocrats would rent apartments in their mansions, but wouldn’t that first-floor 1-bedroom be a perfect butler+cook apartment? And the second floor 2-bedroom can be used as a guest suite. Still, the price is a bit of nonsense in my opinion.
I am a member of a little elite and large masses bother me
I am a bear of very little brain, and large words bother me
– Pooh Bear
I am a buyer of very little mortgage, and large houses bother me.
– Winnie the Boer
So… 2 rental units w/ income $56,400/yr. That will almost pay the mortgage for $1mil. So it’s like buying 2800 square feet to live in for only $6mil – and you get that great facade.
Hard to know if the merely rich who comment on Brownstoner know the value of a house being marketed to plutocrats. To me $7,000,000 sounds silly for this house.
BSD the “lambo” would be the only place you could go in there to have a private conversation. Not a toddler household I guess.
Maybe for that price you get this eccentric Tokyo garage that puts your lambo in your living room for sh.ts and giggles:
http://www.todayandtomorrow.net/2010/03/26/kre-house/
Agree with everything said. Remarkable exterior and width. Not feeling the interior. Too many renovations, too many kitchens, don’t like 1890s-1910s mantles, too much much too much. What a muddle. They need Julianne Moore to straighten this out.
Thanks, duckumu. The before/after shots of the exterior reno are jaw-dropping. The owner should get a medal for the transformation — what an improvement to the streetscape that must have been.