The Last House Standing (Barely)
OCTOBER 7, 2010
The only freestanding 19th-century house in Crown Heights, Brooklyn has a storied history—and a bargain-basement price tag.
Few besides natives and neighbors know the white Greek Revival/Italianate home at 1375 Dean Street, as a testament to an era when the pastoral district was only just becoming a suburb.
The house once stood amid fields in what is now Crown Heights, bought in 1859 by the wife of a merchant-turned-real-estate-salesman. The family raised four daughters, all of whom remained in the house until they sold it in 1918. The house changed hands many times thereafter.
Most recently it was acquired with the reported intent of making use of the sizeable double lot on which it stood (via Brooklynian). The house was landmarked by the city in 2006, which prevented it from being razed. Put back on the market at the boom-era price of $800,000, it has languished since, deemed unsafe due to structural decay. A recent vandalism left its banisters missing and wooden molding smashed and defaced and it’s current price tag at $227,000.
The Awl recently noted the dramatic price slide in what now is little more than a shell of a single-family home—albeit a large and unique one—that needs more than a little TLC, and Brooklyn real estate blog Brownstoner ran this piece on its history.
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