House of the Day: 3 Monroe Place
This new listing at 3 Monroe Place in Brooklyn Heights is pretty intense. The Greek Revival townhouse has a ton of historic detail–gold leaf ceiling, columns and pilasters, wood paneling–and some publishing bragging rights to boot. (Only thing we’re not so wild about is the recessed lighting on the parlor floor but no surprise there…
This new listing at 3 Monroe Place in Brooklyn Heights is pretty intense. The Greek Revival townhouse has a ton of historic detail–gold leaf ceiling, columns and pilasters, wood paneling–and some publishing bragging rights to boot. (Only thing we’re not so wild about is the recessed lighting on the parlor floor but no surprise there for long-time readers.) The asking price for the 4,360-square-foot house is $3,500,000, not a crazy amount on a per-square-foot basis for Brooklyn Heights.
3 Monroe Place [Massey Knakal] GMAP P*Shark
noki, you’re scaring me.
seriously though, apart from the red paint job, this is a gorgeous house. So beautiful it was selected to be on the cover of Clay Lancaster’s “Old Brooklyn Heights” book. The red can be painted over and the columns carted away.
If Mae West had lived here, all would be forgiven.
nice house, nice block, gorgeous facade.
at the risk of seeming pedantic (ahem) classical columns should never just end at a ceiling like that. It is completely incorrect. A column needs to support a piece called an entablature. without its beam-like entablature a column is like a dangling participle in prose. It is incorrect usage and that is why it looks funny.
exactly right, notice the columns supporting a heavy entablature -that’s classical architecture correctly put together. Actually, that’s a Minard Lafever interior so it is the most pedantically correct example there is.