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Elaborate Limestone With Lavish Modern Updates in Stuy Heights Asks $3.195 Million

Carefully restored and updated with high-end flourishes, this elaborate Axel Hedman townhouse has a kitchen that would be at home in Wallpaper magazine.

by Stephen Zacks

04/08/2019 0

Carefully restored and updated with high-end flourishes, this elaborate Axel Hedman townhouse is part of a row of 10 in Bed Stuy’s Stuyvesant Heights Historic District. The Hedman wood detailing at 386 Stuyvesant Avenue is all preserved, including such characteristic neo-Renaissance details as fretwork screens, trim ornamented with wreathes and swags, pass-throughs, mantels, pier mirrors and window seats. But throughout, the designer-developer duo of Adam Dahill and Christiaan Bunce have added modern touches like converting the wash basins into a vanity with storage and placing the laundry room on the top floor.

In the kitchen and bathrooms, the updates are more straightforwardly modern, with all new custom-designed fumed-oak cupboards with brass inlay and an island with marble countertops and new appliances on the parlor level. A two-family, it’s been configured as a triplex over a floor-through with a cellar below.

While the current set-up lacks access to the garden from the parlor level, unusually, the triplex has sole access to the garden via the stairs and hallway. A “summer kitchen” in the extension is pitched for the purpose of mixing cocktails without having to walk inside.

The third floor has been turned into a grand master suite, with the aforementioned pass-throughs functioning as dressing room with walk-in closets. Unusually, there appears to be a flight of stairs to the roof from the fourth floor — as opposed to the usual ladder — though if the listing mentions anything about an existing roof deck, we missed it.

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The row was built in 1899 by Eli H. Bishop. This one is constructed from limestone with a brownstone base. The facade has a rounded window bay, sculptural entablatures above, and a segmental-arched doorway on top of a dog-leg stoop. The bracketed cornice has an ornate frieze.

With altogether six bedrooms and four bathrooms, the house is listed for $3.195 million by Esther Patten and Maria Ryan of Compass. As you may recall, Dahill Bunce, as they are now calling themselves, set a record with the sale of their last property, 1 Verona Place, for $3.3 million. Think this one will get full ask?

[Listing: 386 Stuyvesant Avenue | Broker: Compass] GMAP