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Grand Clinton Hill Brownstone With Carved Stone Mantels, Four Units Asks $3.685 Million

This stately Italianate/Neo-Grec brownstone is in prime condition, with an owner’s duplex and three rentals to help pay the mortgage.

Brooklyn Homes for Sale in Clinton Hill at 304 Clinton Avenue

by Chris Erikson

06/26/2017 0

Here’s a stately brownstone in prime condition, with an owner’s duplex and three rentals to help pay the mortgage. It’s in the Clinton Hill Historic District, at 304 Clinton Avenue.

The style is transitional Italianate/Neo-Grec; it is part of a row of four designed and built in 1877 by Benjamin Lihiken, according to the designation report.

By all appearances the house is a four-story with a basement, but the floor plan shows a diminutive apartment on the fifth floor, with eight-foot ceilings and half the footprint of the others. The two apartments below are regular floor-throughs, with one bedroom plus an office.

The second floor one has a terrace as well, which sits atop a two-story rear extension.

The duplex has a gorgeous parlor floor, with near 12-foot ceilings, crown moldings, parquet floors, a pair of beauteous mantels, mahogany door and window casings, and floor-to-ceiling windows in the front.

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The kitchen is housed in the 16-by-8-foot extension, and it’s going to be a sticking point for some buyers, who might well picture something more grand and spacious at this price point, perhaps with a deck or at least garden access.

As it stands, the only garden access is through a bedroom on the garden level. There are two of them down there, separated by a walk-through closet and a full bath.

The block is a nice one, and the G train is down the street; Fort Greene park is a five-minute walk.

Listed by Tyson Lewis and Jason Rochford of Halstead, the house is asking $3.685 million. Like it?

[Listing: 304 Clinton Avenue | Broker: Halstead] GMAP