$6.5M Cobble Hill townhouse has renovated interiors that follow the original layout, with a dumbwaiter between floors
All photos courtesy of The Corcoran Group
The four-story townhouse at 146 Baltic Street in Cobble Hill gets contemporary design points for stylish, renovated interiors designed by the award-winning architecture firm of Baxt / Ingui in 2017. But the layout of the 1852 home retains the configuration of the day, with the kitchen as the lower-level engine of the home, from which hard-working staff would ferry dinner and dishware up to the formal dining room above via dumbwaiter. Asking $6,495,000, the home is filled with modern comforts, including a newly-installed dumbwaiter on the lower three floors.
Past a well-preserved historic iron fence and front entry door, you’ll find wide-plank wood flooring, original decorative mantels, and a wood-burning fireplace. On the 21st-century living list are central A/C and a video security system. Like all the best Brooklyn townhouses, outdoor space is part of the appeal–in this case, with three separate outdoor zones.
The parlor floor offers gracious, open living and dining rooms, light-filled from the home’s tall townhouse windows. In the front living room are handsome custom-built-ins. At the back, ceiling-height windows look out over trees in the yard and charming Warren Place mews beyond.
The dining room will accommodate your largest dinner party. French doors open from this room onto a Wisteria-draped wooden deck. Spiral stairs descend from the deck to the greenery of the garden below.
On the garden level, the Baxt / Ingui-designed kitchen is right where it would have been in 1852, anchored by a 2021-friendly white marble island. Timeless additions include a Thermador induction cooktop, a steam convection oven, two dishwashers, two sinks, and bespoke millwork.
A large pantry offers even more value with a full-sized washer and dryer. In true 1800s style, a newly installed dumbwaiter links the lower three floors, ready to come to the rescue if someone in the dining room drops a fork. There is also a bedroom on this floor–perfect as an office, at the front of the house.
A dramatic folding glass door opens from the kitchen onto a landscaped bluestone patio. A pergola tops an extra-deep south-facing garden. Notable highlights of this private al fresco paradise include a koi pond and mature plantings. Ease of maintenance is assured by a timed irrigation system.
On the floor above the parlor, you’ll find a primary suite with a luxurious ensuite bath and a long and lovely custom closet. The home’s third bedroom is also here.
On the top floor are two more bedrooms, a full bath, and that useful sliver of a “flex room” that can often be found on the top floor of a brownstone.
At the home’s lowest level is a collection of hard-working spaces in the form of two offices and a workshop. This subterranean workspace is surrounded by an impressive amount of storage space.
[Listing details: 146 Baltic Street by Ellen E. Newman, Cara Sadownick, and Maxim Lockhart of The Corcoran Group]
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