Christopher Gray Loves Him Some Albemarle Road
[nggallery id=”22292″ template=galleryview] There’s no news in this one, but Christopher Gray’s appreciation of Albemarle Road in yesterday’s Times—”Albemarle is one of the grandest residential streets in the whole city, even with some dings and dents”—is a nice excuse to put up a photo set of the incredibly beautiful Victorian Flatbush boulevard. Gray talks about…
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There’s no news in this one, but Christopher Gray’s appreciation of Albemarle Road in yesterday’s Times—”Albemarle is one of the grandest residential streets in the whole city, even with some dings and dents”—is a nice excuse to put up a photo set of the incredibly beautiful Victorian Flatbush boulevard. Gray talks about how Albermarle’s developer, Dean Alvord, built up the road between 1899 to 1910, giving us three blocks of neo-Classical, Queen Anne and Colonial manses. Flatbush Gardener, who took all the photos above, notes that Albermarle’s landscape architect also played a big role in shaping the boulevard’s identity, turning it into a lush mall.
Brooklyn’s Stately Esplanade [NY Times] GMAP
Albemarle Road Featured in the Times [Flatbush Gardener]
All photos by Flatbush Gardener.
the Buckingham house started out at 2.2 or 2.3, and it was on the market for well over 6 months – I’m sure the market was going south by the time it sold at a much reduced price. Plus there was much dispute on these boards over the price of the $2.5 mil house, considering it had been re-sided.
exactly…not one buyer in 9 months…so given that I think its worth south of $2 m. The last big house in the PPS sold for 1.8 and it was just as big if not bigger on Buckingham and in much better shape AND before the real estate market went south.
Wow, I must of have missed the part of the house tour when you were allowed to pry off a section of the wood floors and measure their actual depth! And you know what? A house is worth exactly what one buyer actually pays for it.
That house has a great deal of potential, but seems overpriced to me, given the amount of work it needs. I also saw it on the house tour last year. The original detail is beautiful, but if you look closely, the beautiful floors are as thin as paper and need to be replaced and a lot of the wood work is cracked and/or missing pieces. It seems that nothing has been done to the house in a great many years. It could be an absolute beauty, but the cost of fixing the original detail, renovating the kitchen and baths, painting the rooms, etc… would run you a pretty penny. Perfectly done in this neighborhood at this time it might go for $2.5M. Given the condition it is in, they need to drop at least $500K off the price, IMO.
The house in the 2nd photo is still for sale on the MKG site http://marykayg.com/html/0499.html ASKING PRICE: $2,350,000
It was on the Victorian Flatbush Open House Tour last year, and that oval dining room and the parlor were knock outs.
Probably one of the best houses on the tour.
The second house in the pics was for sale for over $2.5 million for a long time. Anyone know if it sold?
The houses here are amazing and it’s worth a trip to check out the neighborhood. B or Q to Church or the Q to Parkside or Beverly Road. You can walk to Cortelyou Road for lunch after you’ve checked out the houses.
I’ve always found that last house, with the front pillars real creepy. It looks like it was purposefully modelled after one of those old Southern Plantations Gone with the Wind type style houses. Reminds me of Neil Young’s Southern Man:
I saw cotton
and I saw black
Tall white mansions
and little shacks.
Southern man
when will you
pay them back?
I heard screamin’
and bullwhips cracking
How long? How long?
Hey how about an open house recap from this weekend? Anyone?