House of the Day: 205 6th Avenue
Other than the kitchen island cabinetry, we’re digging this brownstone at 205 6th Avenue in Park Slope that just hit the market with an asking price of $2,725,000. While generously proportioned and still in possession of many of its original details despite a rather thorough renovation, the house lacks a one-of-a-kind status and is located…
Other than the kitchen island cabinetry, we’re digging this brownstone at 205 6th Avenue in Park Slope that just hit the market with an asking price of $2,725,000. While generously proportioned and still in possession of many of its original details despite a rather thorough renovation, the house lacks a one-of-a-kind status and is located on an avenue, so it’ll be quite interesting to see if it can achieve its asking price. Should be quite a bullish sign for the area if it can!
205 6th Avenue [Corcoran] GMAP P*Shark
Entered contract on July 20.
Most of the people who post here are such idiots. not only do they not know anything about real estate but very little about houses.
The residential avenues in Park Slope, PPW, Eighth, and Sixth are the finest streets in the neighborhood. They are where the most luxurious homes were built.
I am constantly amazed by the total cluelessness of the folks who post here. Including Dave who seems to be always selling his house on the corner of God-forsaken and Boondock.
Grand Army: Yes, I actually knew that. In fact, I used to own an Italianate in Clinton Hill that looked remarkably like this one. Thanks for the detail, though — very intersting. I just happen to prefer the homes with more natural wood, like the center stairs on Second & Third Streets in Park Slope.
one person’s prison is another person’s privacy.
Parksloper: Regarding the painted woodwork, conventional wisdom is that the woodwork in an Italianate brownstoner SHOULD be painted. It’s generally pine and often when stripped really doesn’t look good. While the staircases in Italianate houses (c. 1855-1875) were often walnut, the window and door frames were usually pine — having more in common with Federal and Greek Revival townhouses (eg. Brooklyn Heights & Greenwich Village). Of course, given how faddish the Victorians were, there are always exceptions to the rule and many houses (especially in the transitional period between 1870-1880) feature both. As the 1880s went one, the amount of dark woodwork increases significantly — and that’s more typical of most of Park Slope (Neo Grec, Romanesque Revival, Renaissance Revival etc). Btw, I know several Italianate homeowners who have stripped their woodwork down the raw wood only to then repaint it.
Prison yard styled backyard? Prisons have green lawns and pretty bushes? Wow, prison must be great.
My bad.
Disregard me.
Thanks, one one.
This home is one of the three that is just to the left of Union Market, right?
If you look on goolestreetview, the front iron-works are thin, mid-1900’s style iron. But, in the broker’s photo the iron-works are very heavy, thick, classic 1800’s styled iron. I assume the current iron-works are recent replacements.
Not too important, but interesting, I think.
Plus you can look out the front parlor window in the photo and see the trees.