Popular stories this week include a carriage house renovation, a Gowanus row house on the market, and more news.
The Neo-Grec brownstone at 120 Cambridge Place. Photo via Serhant
by Clinton Hill Neo-Grec With Marble Mantels, Coffin Corner Asks $2.22 Million
They are encased in a rather petite package, but this Clinton Hill brownstone has marble mantels, built-ins, wood floors, a curving staircase with an arched niche (aka coffin corner), and other 19th century details. In estate condition, this Neo-Grec dwelling is a bit of a time capsule with well-preserved original details in need of burnishing along with some modern updates.
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A Windsor Terrace Wood Frame and More to See, Starting at $1.895 Million
Our picks for open houses to check out last weekend were found in Park Slope, Boerum Hill, and Windsor Terrace. They range in price from $1.895 million to $6.85 million.
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Photo via Corcoran
Artists’ Gowanus Row House With Wood Floors, Tin Ceilings Asks $3.4 Million
Here’s a residence that still has an early brownstoner renovation feel about it, which is fitting as it has been in the same family since two artists (also preservationists and activists) bought it in the 1970s. At 393 President Street in Gowanus, the brick row house has artsy charm with wood floors, exposed brick, tin ceilings, and a skylit top floor studio space.
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Photo by Elizabeth Hope
The Insider: New Top Floor Extends Living Space in Park Slope Carriage House
A thousand extra square feet of living space was a welcome addition to a historic carriage house. Its interior had long ago been modernized to include an expansive courtyard on the ground level, open to the sky. While the atrium brought in abundant light for a “really beautiful indoor-outdoor experience,” in the words of architect Christine Harper, who masterminded the more recent renovation, it also ate up a great deal of floor area, as did a garage at the front of the building.
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The site this week. Photo by Susan De Vries
Bay Ridge Locals Seek Landmarking for Visitation Academy and Monastery
Bay Ridge residents are calling on the city to designate the neighborhood’s Visitation Academy and Monastery as an individual landmark to preserve a piece of “history that belongs to all of New York City, all people of faith, all women,” as Visitation alumnus Caroline Cardillo put it. The preservation effort, supported by the local council member and at least one preservation group, comes as the site faces likely redevelopment with an impending sale.
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