Open House Picks
Boerum Hill 429 Pacific Street City Connections Sunday 1-3 $2,500,000 GMAP P*Shark Boerum Hill 439 Pacific Street Nancy McKiernan Sunday 2:30-4 $2,100,000 GMAP P*Shark Prospect Heights 318 Park Place Corcoran Sunday 2-4 $1,695,000 GMAP P*Shark Bedford Stuyvesant 200 Hart Street Exit Realty Saturday 1-3 $595,000 GMAP P*Shark
Boerum Hill
429 Pacific Street
City Connections
Sunday 1-3
$2,500,000
GMAP P*Shark
Boerum Hill
439 Pacific Street
Nancy McKiernan
Sunday 2:30-4
$2,100,000
GMAP P*Shark
Prospect Heights
318 Park Place
Corcoran
Sunday 2-4
$1,695,000
GMAP P*Shark
Bedford Stuyvesant
200 Hart Street
Exit Realty
Saturday 1-3
$595,000
GMAP P*Shark
lp,
He mentioned it in a house on Dean St. so maybe he was just referring to the Boerum Hill area. I figured that Fort Greene and Clinton Hill had architecture from an earlier period too just judging by the scale and majesty of some of those homes so thanks for confirming it.
West, that’s interesting. As for Italianate rowhouses, there are plenty around – including pre-civil war houses. There are many in Fort Greene and Clinton Hill, a well as Brooklyn Heights. I don’t know the dates of houses for other areas, but I don’t think that it is exceedingly rare to find pre-civil war rowhouses, though they are certainly not as common as post civil war ones. I’ve lived in a couple “pre” civil war, and own a civil war era place (1862) in Clinton Hill. I’ve often wondered about the extent of the plumbing when built. Our back yard had a layer of what appeared to be lime in the soil not far from the back door (found it when fixing the patio an redoing the garden). My neighbor said their place, built by the same guy, had an outhouse years ago that was taken down. I have a feeling that even if these places had limited plumbing for water and waste, they likely also had an outhouse for the help off the kitchen on the ground floor. That’s my guess. I think plumbing took off in Brooklyn (and Manhattan for that matter) once water mains were more accessible. I think Lockwood talks about that in Bricks and Brownstone… As for Italianate, or late Italianate, that is an architectural style that, while it correlates to certain time periods, is not inextricably linked to the year the house was built.
I live next door to 429–though house is in nowhere near as pristine shape–and we indeed found an outhouse/privy in the backyard, while digging up some cement!
One interesting thing about 429 Pacific (I assume the one too across the st. but the link is the same). I learned from a Corcoran broker who is also a Brooklyn historian that houses on this street and a couple of others are actually some of the few Italianate (as opposed to post-Civil War brownstones, which he termed “late Italianate”) brownstones remaining in Brooklyn. They were actually built before indoor plmubing was common so there would have been an outhouse in the back and the bathrooms would have been installed sometime after the house was originally built.
Those Pacific St prices are doable, but seem high by about 10% to me. I guess that is standard operating procedure.
PPSer, I had similar thoughts. I’m guessing that because of the extra deep lot, those pictures are there to illustrate the posibilities for any unused FAR.
I guess the door was locked on Park Pl.
Methinks that the pictures of GAP and the Libary are just optional places to sleep during the renovation.
What’s up with the Park Place house? Is it that bad inside that it doesn’t merit ONE interior picture?? That’s some poor broker work there.
Do the sellers provide a library card to the buyers of the Park Place house? Or is the library in the brownstone? And what about the arch? Is that pictured because it separates the kitchen from the parlor?