House of the Day: Woodframe on Middagh
While the exterior of this house looks like it belongs in Greenpoint, it’s actually located on one of the more charming streets in Brooklyn Heights. We hope the next owner of this house has enough dough to do the renovation justice. While the house has more of a 1970’s suburban vibe right now, the potential,…
While the exterior of this house looks like it belongs in Greenpoint, it’s actually located on one of the more charming streets in Brooklyn Heights. We hope the next owner of this house has enough dough to do the renovation justice. While the house has more of a 1970’s suburban vibe right now, the potential, especially given the extra-wide lot, driveway and carriage house, is amazing. With an asking price of $2.395 million, it looks to us like you could put close to a million bucks into fixing this place up and be in a decent place investment-wise. Do others agree or has old Brownstoner lost his marbles?
72 Middagh Street [Corcoran] GMAP
I dimly recall this house was for sale back in ’97 for 735K. It’s location next to the firehouse ruled it out for us.
i’ve never seen bad in any home in historic BH but I agree with me and me again. Restoration is one thing, change is good, but garbage is garbage. Preserving a foundation and changing everything means nothing to the home itself except making it a whole new house….it does put continued value into the neighborhood. The house itself will be a whole new house with any preservation and changes it undergoes, it does not offer any charm or value looking the way it does.
Anyone with a little vision can see that putting a new front would add lots of charm and curb appeal. Very interesting space and we need a little diversion from everything brownstone rowhouse.
Those that call it crap have little vision. Great deal for right person.
Why not restore. I have a long background in museum work and there is plenty left of that house to save it and restore. BH is about saving, not destroying and building new-but-old looking. That’s why the area has landmark status- to preserve what’s original as much as possible
not for nothing, but whether or not I am full of it has nothing to do with this house. It is not worth anything. everyone is dreaming about what the history of the house is, was or could be but that is long gone with the CRAP that it became. Level it and bring back a real federal looking house or brownstone. that’s what BH is all about. this house brings no historic value to BH or the new buyer. sorry but that’s how I see it.
yes me, again- you certainly are full of it.
crap crap crap crap crap crap crap
sba, it looks like you go through the garage doors on the right, down a driveway to the carriage houses in the back of the house. The garage doors only close off the driveway. It’s kinda cool that the house is built over the driveway, it reminds me of a mews house in London that a friend lives in, which is structured just like that (only looks a lot better). I think that the fact that it was a school gives you lots of leeway in setting up the interior, and as Naomi said earlier, you could remove a lot of the new walls, and basically do whatever you want. It really could be a wonderfully special house with a little vision and a lot of cash.
Mega Millions drawing is tomorrow………I’d better play!
it was originally a school–