The Gingerbread House Hits the Market
The Gingerbread House, the famous Arts & Crafts residence designed by architect James Sarsfield Kennedy, is for sale. (While it is more popularly known as the Gingerbread House, Forgotten NY points out that its formal name is the Howard E. and Jessie Jones House.) The 5,800-square-foot structure of uncut stone sits on a verdant one-acre…
The Gingerbread House, the famous Arts & Crafts residence designed by architect James Sarsfield Kennedy, is for sale. (While it is more popularly known as the Gingerbread House, Forgotten NY points out that its formal name is the Howard E. and Jessie Jones House.) The 5,800-square-foot structure of uncut stone sits on a verdant one-acre lot at 8220 Narrows Avenue just a block from the waterfront. With its thatched roofs and endless interior architectural details, the 1916 house is definitely one of a kind. And it comes with a one-of-a-kind price tag of $12,000,000. This should be interesting.
8220 Narrows Avenue [Brown Harris Stevens] GMAP
Well, Bxgirl, I’ll buy that house and enjoy the 40 acres (if they throw in the mule) and you and your kitties can come live there too and know that no borscht will ever get past the front gate and Pinkerton guards!
eh, snappy? My people have had 5000 years of misery, OY! all we ever asked for was freedom from borscht 🙂
I like the house Chicken posted much better. Even if only because the 12mil would get me a heliport. Oh, and the 49.4 acres. All my people have ever wanted was 40 acres and a mule. Think they’ll throw in a mule for me? 🙂
The same people have owned it since 1985. it got its landmark designation in 1989.
Holy Sh*t Chicken!
$12 million is what a smallish townhouse in the West Village sells for or a spectacular brownstone in Brooklyn Heights. Just to give my following comments context. I don’t know they’ll get that much for it but I predict the buyer will be a wealthy person who already lives in Bay Ridge and has for a long time if not a couple/few generations and has always coveted this house. But whether somebody who can afford a townhouse in Manhattan will buy it, eh, not so sure. The house is cool but it’s next to a large high school if I remember correctly. And the listing mentions nothing about mechanicals, only the historic and architectural significance. Also note lack of photos of baths and kitchen. Don’t expect the house to be updated.
The “nosey” in me desperately wants to find out who’s lucky enough to live in this house right now but ACRIS address/block & lot search ain’t workin’. Get it fixed Bloomie (or are you punishing me for voting for Reverend Billy?)!
rob- a moat is no good without crocodiles and piranhas. 🙂
lol bxgirl, i totally realized that after i already hit add reply. hahah
oh someone just mentioned it faces a nyc public high school. :-/ that should seriously chop a good 9-10 million off this place. would the new owners be allowed to build a high brick wall around the property? or a moat? a moat would rock at a place like this.
*rob*