70 Willow Street Hits Market
The listing’s not up yet, but the historic and storied house (Truman Capote lived there from 1955 to 1965) at 70 Willow Street in Brooklyn Heights is reportedly hitting the market today with an eye-popping asking price of $18,000,000. Here’s an excerpt from today’s Daily News article about the 18-room 1839 mansion: With 11 fireplaces,…
The listing’s not up yet, but the historic and storied house (Truman Capote lived there from 1955 to 1965) at 70 Willow Street in Brooklyn Heights is reportedly hitting the market today with an eye-popping asking price of $18,000,000. Here’s an excerpt from today’s Daily News article about the 18-room 1839 mansion:
With 11 fireplaces, parking for four cars, a mural copied from the Kennedy White House, a back porch and a garden like something out of a Southern estate, the Brooklyn Heights mansion is touted as the finest house in the borough’s finest neighborhood. “It’s like living in a country estate in the middle of New York City,” said Karen Heyman, the Sotheby’s broker selling the property. “It takes your breath away the minute you walk in.”
If the asking price were achieved, it would be 50 percent higher than the standing record for a private house in the borough. Until the listing’s up, you can see a couple of interior photos on a post we did back in 2007 when the house was on the market as a $40,000-a-month rental. GMAP
Update: The listing is now online!
If this house were in Manhattan it’s be $40 MM, fsrq.
Minard;
Planet Earth is calling.
My advice to the billionaire looking to buy is to acquire the Jehovah’s building, tear it down and build a replica of this house along with a nice guest house out back.
It would set you back less than the cost of a 1930’s Picasso, of which there are hundreds, or a Giacometti bronze (102 million) or other expensive chachkes recently bought at auction.
4.8M by rent roll (if you believe that 40k/mo fig) but academic. Outlier 4 sure. Under 10M.
***Bid half off peak comps***
For the record, and with help from the Brooklyn Heights blog, if not already noted above, 70 Willow Street (the Adrian Van Sinderen House) was owned by designer Oliver Smith when Truman Capote lived there (rented the garden floor, I believe) and wrote In Cold Blood. It wasn’t owned by Truman Capote. It was also the home of Tony Award winning director Tyrone Guthrie.
anyone know lebron james’ phone number? this is a house built for a king and he needs to be livin’ in it while playing for the knicks next season!
Benson – true but markets are generally markets and as nice as this house is – I dont think that B.H. commands the penis-extension premium that certain Manhattan “trophy” properties have –
“Building to the right is the Jehovah’s behemoth that takes up half the block.”
Eeesh – didn’t realize it was that big. I was thinking it would be cool if the eventual buyer of this house could buy the building next door, knock it down and go all Norah on the side wall.
Thanks Minard, painted brick can look very nice.