House of the Day: 220 Garfield Place
220 Garfield Place was on the market with Brown Harris Stevens for $2,150,000 back in 2009 but the listing mysteriously disappeared after a couple of weeks. Now it’s back–at the same price–with Brooklyn Properties. The Neo-Grec brownstone has lots of historic charm and appears to be in decent shape. It’s currently configured as a double-duplex,…
220 Garfield Place was on the market with Brown Harris Stevens for $2,150,000 back in 2009 but the listing mysteriously disappeared after a couple of weeks. Now it’s back–at the same price–with Brooklyn Properties. The Neo-Grec brownstone has lots of historic charm and appears to be in decent shape. It’s currently configured as a double-duplex, though, and neither kitchen looks worthy of a house of this price, so it’ll be interesting to see how it fares.
220 Garfield Place [Brooklyn Properties] GMAP P*Shark
Great bones but needs a TON of work. I’d be slightly concerned about the state of the hallway parquet — the way the light catches it in the photo on the BP site, it looks bumpy, as if it was badly or over-sanded. Hope there’s enough wood left to fix! Looking beyond the other cosmetic issues, it reminds of me of the gorgeous Park Slope NeoGrec featured in the book Brooklyn Modern that I believe was renovated by Tyler Hays of BBDW.
Garfield Realty also has this listing for sale – same price. I’ve walked past this house a hundred times. The awning looks stupid. I agree with whoever said it above – buyer will remove it first chance they get. Looks like a lot of potential in this house.
Seems like a house in which the orignal layout hasn’t been messed with that much. Kitchens would be easy to redo – I’d prefer that, to do my own updating, to most of the renovated kitchens I see, which to me are ugly.
Problem here is the 3/4 bath, divided into two, in the lower duplex, and only the one bath at that.
I have actually been in the house. it has decent bones but is being lived in like a transient frat house. The entire house needs to be re-done in order to be lived in or rented out. 2.15 is high for a would be gut reno.
Awnings were fairly typical for brownstones in the early 1900’s, so really, they’re fairly historical in terms of additions that aren’t considered ‘original’ or whatever the current LPC jargon is.
The cord from the light fixture is a little scary.
I like the awning, and it keeps the rain off. This house has some beautiful details. What a shame all the woodwork is painted. That kitchen would be totally easy to spruce up, hardly have to do a thing. I wonder if the decorative painting on the cornices is original. It’s hard to see in the small photos, but it looks like that tortoiseshell design we sometimes see. Would look great if the rest of the green room were painted to harmonize. All that white is not attractive, though probably handy when selling.
I love awnings- my dad was born in Easton, P. and I remember driving there to visit family when I was a kid and loving the rows of striped awnings on every street.Every house had awnings of different stripes and colorways.
That’s really neat about the awnings, def not the first thing you think about when it comes to brownstone Brooklyn.