House of the Day: 600A Jefferson Avenue
Wow. This turn-of-the-century brownstone at 600A Jefferson Avenue in Bedford Stuyvesant is stunning. The original architectural details, including gorgeous parquet floors and wooden built-ins, are some of the most impressive we’ve seen in a long time. (We wish they’d included a photo of the original icebox!) Our only reservation about the listing is the mention…
Wow. This turn-of-the-century brownstone at 600A Jefferson Avenue in Bedford Stuyvesant is stunning. The original architectural details, including gorgeous parquet floors and wooden built-ins, are some of the most impressive we’ve seen in a long time. (We wish they’d included a photo of the original icebox!) Our only reservation about the listing is the mention of a top-floor rental, which implies some access issues through the owner-occupied part of the house. And $900,000 is definitely at the high end of prices for this neck of the woods. Then again, the house itself is pretty special and certainly deserves to sell at a premium.
600A Jefferson Avenue [Brooklyn Properties] GMAP P*Shark
JM&J! There is a “1900 catalog of house parts”, CSD? Is it an actual paper record? something that can be found online or downloaded? Sorry, but I am new to this, and a catalog like this I’d be up all nite reading. Thanks!
Built for F.C Swimm who lived 2 doors down
Ah!
I see!
Thanks, MM and Commodore.
According to my 1900 catalog of house parts, the big wide mirror in the front parlor (in lieu of a fireplace) is called a console. The long skinny mirror out in in the front hall is the pier mirror.
In this case, I must say, the “contraption” in the front parlor does look pretty weird from a historic design standpoint, and dibs’ theory does sound strangely possible, although there is already a radiator in the room, just a few feet away.
600A has much of the same woodwork that our BedStuy house has. (Amzi, is it a Henry Hill, built by C.G. Reynolds, by any chance?) We have that exact bookcase and similar doors in the rear parlor. I wish we had the same stained glass in the rear parlor door. That’s a beauty.
Dining room floors in the 1890s houses around here do seem to be a bit over the top. Our parlors have tasteful, rather complicated borders, but down in the dining room, the pattern is heavy-handed, just as at 600A.
I’d LOVE to be the guy that does all the wallpaper at 600A. Nothing makes the woodwork feel more at home than the right wall patterns.
Pigeon, central heating was pretty common by the end of the 1850’s. The fireplaces in this house, which were gas, gave a bit of heat, and were decorative, but were not the main sources of heat to the house.
I don’t understand.
I thought fireplaces were used for heat, no?
(Gas flame heat, right?)
Wouldn’t the front parlor have become cold without one?
Why would builders place a mirror there instead of a fireplace?
Anyone know?
All these houses have the Pier Mirror in this row. Most most homes on the Stuyvesant side of Bedford Stuyvesant have Pier mirrors instead of the fireplace. This house dose have 5 other fireplaces
Since there are several other fireplaces (with coal burning inserts) I would think the Dave is correct. The way the mirror is boxed out from the wall makes it look like this was a change made many years ago.
This will go above $800k, BHO.