House of the Day: 287 Dekalb Avenue
OMG this place is awesome! This 1905 1889 Romanesque Revival house at 287 Dekalb Avenue has some of the sickest original detail we’ve ever seen in Clinton Hill. The house, which appears to have been in the same family for over three decades, was designed by Montrose Morris, we learned from the LPC designation report…
OMG this place is awesome! This 1905 1889 Romanesque Revival house at 287 Dekalb Avenue has some of the sickest original detail we’ve ever seen in Clinton Hill. The house, which appears to have been in the same family for over three decades, was designed by Montrose Morris, we learned from the LPC designation report on the Clinton Hill Historic District. Here’s some more from that report: “Nos. 285-289 form one of the outstanding rows in Brooklyn…They were designed in such a way as to give the effect of one large mansion. The facades of these buildings display the textural and chromatic contrasts that are a hallmark of Romanesque Revival style buildings.” The asking price is $2,250,000. We are very jealous of whoever gets to buy this place!
287 Dekalb Avenue [Halstead] GMAP P*Shark
Minard and Montrose know their stuff.
I’d be depressed if I had to look at those interiors when I come home in the evening.
Exterior is beautiful.
Unfortunate top floor treatment though.
Montrose, you totally gotta call the owners/real estate agent and get in and take photos for your book NOW before some idiot tears out the original detail. This is one for the history books and the house museums.
Oh, btw, date is wrong. 1889 is the correct year. Minard, your instincts were right. Morris did these right after his houses on Hancock St, which also look like one very large house, but are actually 4 separate dwellings. The Alhambra is also from this time period.
Ishtar, I didn’t do theses as BOTD yet. I did write generally about them in a 5 part piece I did on MM last year. I’ve seen pixs of the house on the end to the right of this, very similar, but this has much more ornate woodwork.
Monty! My man!
Classic Monty. His houses in Bed Stuy have (had, most of them unfortunately) similar details, such as the woodwork screen stairway, and coffered ceilings, etc. But this is absolutely cool.
“appears to have been in the same family for over three decades”
Oh mopar! Here’s one of those rare examples of “owners” out-“owning” their mortgage term (not really commonplace). But it looks like it was paid off in ’87. What happened? HELOCO?
***Bid half off peak comps***
1905, really?
I would have guessed earlier. This style was over by 1894 or so. But I suppose there may have been clients with old-fashioned tastes.
This is a great house.
Didn’t MM do a write up on this place recently or is there a similar building in Prospect Heights that houses 3 single family homes?