House of the Day: 51 Midwood Street
Midwood Street is the gift that keeps on giving! A couple weeks ago we spotlighted 66 Midwood, which recently hit the market for $1,849,000; that was on the heels of #20, #22 and #77 all hitting the market in recent weeks and months. Believe it or not, yet another beautiful house on the street is…
Midwood Street is the gift that keeps on giving! A couple weeks ago we spotlighted 66 Midwood, which recently hit the market for $1,849,000; that was on the heels of #20, #22 and #77 all hitting the market in recent weeks and months. Believe it or not, yet another beautiful house on the street is up for sale! 51 Midwood (which one knowledgeable insider tells us is the nicest of the lot) is asking $1,600,000. The 4,000-square-foot pad has some top-notch woodwork as well as a remodeled kitchen going for it. Which of these babies do you think will cross the finish line first?
51 Midwood Street [Corcoran] GMAP P*Shark
77 Midwood is now in contract.
I do like the woodwork in this house but in my opinion 77 Midwood is by far the best of the lot. It’s much prettier and that layout, wth the powder room on the parlor floor, is certainly more useable and practical for modern living. 20 Midwood is also lovely.
We have a house similar to Bob Marvin’s and I have to put my vote in for the kitchen and dining room on the garden level. We love having a kitchen that leads out to the garden. We put in french doors, so we get to enjoy the blooming garden while cooking and eating, indoors or out! On our parlor floor we have a large family room overlooking the garden; a middle parlor that is perfect for sipping hot coffee in the morning or wine by the fireplace at night; and a formal front parlor for when company comes over. We use the whole house and love it this way!
LowerUWSider – we traded our luws apt for one of the houses in this set six years ago, and have our kitchen & dr on the parlor floor. Our kitchen is where the butlers pantry was (where this house also has a kitchen) but we opened the entrance to it full width which makes a big difference – the parlor floor is open from front to the back of the extension. We spend a lot of our time on the parlor floor, and we have a family room on the second floor as well.
We took out the small bdrms and made other changes. These houses are moldable to your needs. We have enjoyed every day of living on this block, in this house. Number 52 sold for $1.6m in 2008, so these prices are in line.
Oh; yes, I think.
Sorry, yet again I was unclear in my prior post. I was only referring to the 3-story limestone Hedmans on Midwood I (i.e., the ones like 20 and 22). Those seem to have two different basic designs.
The Midwood I four story houses actually have ten, rather than two designs. Each house on the north and south sides of the two rows is different, but there are two of each design over both the north and south sides of the street, diagonally opposite each other.In other words, this HOTD,# 51, which is the westernmost of the W.A.A. Brown houses on the north side, is the same design as # 72, which is the easternmost of the houses on the south side. There are twenty houses in total, on both sides of the street, and ten different designs.
Just chiming in here to heartily agree with Bob and Babs. I personally know this house (and the owners) fairly well. It’s a truly gorgeous single family home, very nicely renoed with tons of original detail left intact. The owners have put quite a bit into it, including lots of love and respect. IMO, the price on this house is far from putting it in a race to the bottom. It should go for the ask.
The Midwood I houses are virtually indistinguishable from the 5th Street houses I mentioned earlier. The main difference (as far as I can tell) is that the Midwood I has two alternating designs (side bays that are either rounded or 3-sided), whereas 5th Street has those two designs plus a smattering of “swell-front†houses (that may not be a real term) where the entire facade protrudes to form a 3-sided bay.