House of the Day: 135 Westminster Road
After last week’s listing for a Albemarle botch-job, today’s House of the Day at 135 Westminster Road looks positively like a bargain at $1,699,000. Recently restored, the house retains is old-school gingerbready goodness. Plenty of original wood paneling, stained glass windows and light fixtures. (Check out the kitchen appliances!) What’s not to like? The first…
After last week’s listing for a Albemarle botch-job, today’s House of the Day at 135 Westminster Road looks positively like a bargain at $1,699,000. Recently restored, the house retains is old-school gingerbready goodness. Plenty of original wood paneling, stained glass windows and light fixtures. (Check out the kitchen appliances!) What’s not to like? The first showing is on Sunday but we bet this one won’t last long.
135 Westminster Road [Mary Kay Gallagher] GMAP P*Shark
I agree completely with anon 10:03…the amount of money needed to welcome this massive house into the 20th century (much less the 21st, really) seems to me like it would be off the charts. The kitchen looks something like my grandparents might have lived in. But the above posters were right…this thing will definitely sell. And the idea of 1.8m being a “bargain” for anything sounds kinda silly to me, personally.
So creepy. It would cost a bundle to make this look like something other than a funeral parlor.
It doesn’t look like the electrical or plumbing has been updated in the last 50 years.
This house is crazily overpriced for the neighborhood. Also, rich yuppies are not exactly welcome over here. We would like to keep the freaks who would get their kids pony rides for a birthday party out and normal people in. This is old school, working class brooklyn.
Anon 1:51pm
I would not assume that most people with 1-2 million to spend are professional couples with 1-2 children who would prefer townhousesnear yoga classes. My husband and I could have afforded a Manhattan condo or “townhome” but chose Victorian Flatbush specifically because I wanted my children to have the benefits of living in the city near amenities (Park Slope or elsewhere) but I also wanted a neighborhood with a suburban feel (yard, driveway, grass.) My children enjoyed skateboarding, bike riding and swimming right in our yard! I was even able to rent a pony and a space jump for a birthday party. I’ve hosted numerous gatherings, some work related with upwards of 75 people and the lack of space was not a worry. This area was a great option for us. We could have easily afforded a “townhome” or condo in Manhattan but are extremely happy with our choice. As for schools, both of my children were in private schools as a matter of preference and we would have kept them there regardless of where we lived. The families moving into the neighborhood now are probably better situated financially than the people buying here ten years ago. However, I recognize that people have a variety needs and lifestyle choices and I can respect someones decision to raise their children in a townhome or co-op without making baseless assumptions.
I love this house. The gardens match the exterior. This past Sunday, during the House Tour, the roses were blooming and climbing across the front and sides of the house.
Favorite outside detail: The sundial on the south side of the house.
Never been inside.
Gee, since I have a driveway and a car… I’m pretty much free to go wherever I want, whenever I want. Which means I can stay put in Flatbush, or go and prop up your neighborhood by spending my cash there… Or any other neighborhood for that matter.
Oh, judging from your supercilious tone, 5:39, I’m assuming you OWN a one family brownstoner, sans renters, on lets say, Montgomery Place…?
Why do you sound sothreatened, if living in the epicenter of Brooklyn without a care in the world?
“I rather visit the congestion on 5th Avenue at my leisure than live next to it, thank you.”
Another argument for permit parking.
I’ll walk to 5th Avenue, thank you. And you can stay home, admire your driveway, and visit the same restaurant on Cortelyou–it’s really pretty good, considering!–over and over and over…
Well here in Victorian Flatbush aka Ditmas Park etc…we can move along on Cortelyou without getting bulldozed by the stroller brigades!
Oh for heavens’ sake there are houses like this all over the united states.
Big deal, a family lives in a big house all by themselves without renters to help pay the heat bill.
New Yorkers are such dingbats.
Such low expectations.