House of the Day: 26 Winthrop Street
We have never seen anything like this ‘teens one-family at 26 Winthrop Street in Prospect Lefferts Gardens. Outside, it’s Neo-Classical in red brick with white accents and dormer windows. Inside, it’s a ‘teens Tudor with a barrel-vaulted ceiling, Gothic-meets-Arts-and-Crafts fireplace, a bay window with a window seat in a niche with built-in bookcases, parquet and inlaid…
We have never seen anything like this ‘teens one-family at 26 Winthrop Street in Prospect Lefferts Gardens. Outside, it’s Neo-Classical in red brick with white accents and dormer windows. Inside, it’s a ‘teens Tudor with a barrel-vaulted ceiling, Gothic-meets-Arts-and-Crafts fireplace, a bay window with a window seat in a niche with built-in bookcases, parquet and inlaid floors, and floor-to-ceiling mahogany paneling — and that’s just in the living room.
The dining room also has paneling, although less of it, as well as arched stained glass windows. The kitchen is updated, with granite counters and new Arts and Crafts-style cupboards with an arch over the sink that matches the ones in the living room. The inlaid floors continue upstairs, where there are six bedrooms, a blue stained-glass skylight, and a roof deck. We’d love to know what the two bathrooms look like, but they’re not pictured.
The house is not in the landmark district, unfortunately, but the listing says it was built in 1914 by a shipbuilder as his own house. The living room is “a replica of a ship’s stateroom,” it says.
What do you think of it and the ask of $1,550,000?
26 Winthrop Street [Corcoran] GMAP
Yeah, the ask seems fair, maybe even a bit much. Bathrooms need an update, and it has no A/C. Agreed with bens about location — too bad it’s not on a better (and prettier) street.
My house has 4 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms-5 of us, and we frequently have company over, it does get tough many times 🙂
Only two bathrooms for 6 bedrooms? Something is off here. Sounds like the bedrooms were divided.
or people back in the day didn’t need 1.5 bathrooms for every bedroom.
Really nice.
When I watch real estate shows on TV, I love laughing at the people who insist their 3 children each need their own en suite bathroom. Sometimes a couple will insist they need separate bathrooms themselves! Or the woman who sees a walk-in closet the size of NY bedrooms and says “this is too small and can’t possibly fit all my shoes”
What’s wrong with the location?
What’s the price difference between a house like this and one on the Manor?
27 Clarkson went for $1.1, needing a lot of work.