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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Minard, a lot of houses in Philly have those marble inserts with the street names carved in. I agree, they are really nice details.
This renovation was a gift to the neighborhood. Well said.
the Baxt firm is among the best in the business.
this house had obviously gone through the mill of changes and modernizations so one should not expect any sort of “purity” either inside or out.
The rehabbed interiors look terrific but I am a little disappointed, just a little, with the exterior restoration. Maybe it is the cornice that seems awkward; the proportions and size of the windows aeem to lack the grace of early 19th century work.
My favorite facade features are the street names carved in narble at the corner. Nice. I wonder if they found them hidden under the prior fake white brickfront facade?
nitpicking aside, this is a huge gift to the street.
So, $1.6 million in 2003. And then lots of renovations… I wonder what the profit margin is for this $7 million price tag! I have to think it’s on the Greedy McDuck side of the line….
Propertyshark says 4,000 sf, and it seems accurate for a building that is 50’x35′ with a partial roof terrace on the third floor. I am not in love with the renovation at all, it looks too pastel 80’s California- and the furniture! Yikes. I know it’s not what they are selling, but would it have killed the agent to do a bit of staging/decluttering for the pictures? You can’t hardly see the house. It would have been smart to show the parking area and get a sense of the 50×100 lot.
The location is wonderful, the lot size is amazing, but $7 million? It seems like an overreach, unless the pictures omitted some super something.
buttermilk, that’s not an apartment, that’s an extra kitchen. Really big houses for rich people have them.
The dining room is too small for my taste up there on that second floor.
I’d rather have the Namm Institute building. This is a great house, I’m sure, but it’s been renovated too much. Not that I have any concept of being able to afford a 7 million dollar house.
Wow, the “before” and after of the facade is AMAZING. What an addition to the neighborhood. I walked by this place a year (or so) ago when the renovation was underway and was shocked that I’d never noticed the house before. This explains why. Fantastic job. This might explain a lot about the lack of historic feeling on the interior. The reality may be that there wasnt much left on the interior to work with so they built a traditionally styled interior with some salvaged mantles and reproduction lighting.
I think this was once the rectory building for the church next door. Nice renovation, a bit upscale suburban, but 7 mil to be a landlord? That guitar placement is bugging me, too.
I cannot imagine the buyer for an expensive property across from the Met Foods on a corner of Henry Street. But that’s just me.