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Landmarked Cobble Hill home hits market
BY STEPHEN ZACKS
The three-story landmarked
1850s brick townhouse at 190
Warren St. belonged to the
late Magnum photographer
Charles Harbutt, who covered,
among other things, the Cuban
revolution, and whose photos
illustrate the 1969 Plan for New
York City.
Landmarked in 1970 as a
part of the Cobble Hill Historic
District, the house has a wide
25-foot street front and details
— promising, despite the possible
need for renovation.
It’s part of a row of eight
Italianates erected in 1853–55
for William W. Petit and Edmund
B. Shotwell, with bracketed
pediments above the doorway
and fi rst-fl oor windows,
bracketed cornices, and rusticated
basements with segmental
arched windows on
the basement level and on the
third fl oor. Updates on No. 202
were the only substantial alterations
along the preserved
block before the designation
passed, apart from painting of
the brick on this and several
others.
The house is a two-family
and set up as an owner’s triplex
over a one-bedroom rental
apartment. Interior details include
foliate crown moldings
in the parlor, Greek Revival
ear moldings, and original
stair newel posts.
What is shown appears to
be in good condition, if in need
of perhaps a little new paint
or fl oor refi nishing. The listing
notes a spacious backyard,
slightly wild with growth, and
we see a particularly bright
and aged green carpet from
another era on the stairway,
along with a tin ceiling that
could use some touching up,
and a mixture of parquet and
wood-plank fl oors.
HISTORIC CHARM: This three-story, 1850s brick beauty was landmarked in 1970 as a part of the Cobble Hill
Historic District. Leslie J. Garfi eld
COURIER L 18 IFE, NOV. 23–29, 2018 DT
None of the kitchens or
bathrooms are pictured. The
owner’s kitchen is in the rear of
the parlor fl oor, a popular contemporary
confi guration, with
steps leading down to the garden.
There are only two bathrooms
in the house, one for
each apartment, but plenty of
space to add another on the top
fl oor or convert adjacent small
rooms into en suite baths.
Notably, images from Warren
Street fi gure among the
historical works highlighted by
Harbutt’s dealer, Peter Fetterman
Gallery, as well as a 1962
Brooklyn Heights street scene.
The building, which has
been in the Harbutt family
since 1977, is being offered by
Ravi Kantha of Leslie J. Garfi
eld for $4.995 million. Will the
price hold up?
Brick townhouse is listed at $4.995M
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