Posted on 08/29/2009 11:55:47 PM PDT by Daffynition
NEW YORK (AP) - It's 9 1/2 feet wide and 42 feet long and is billed as the narrowest house in New York City. But there's nothing small about its asking price : $2.7 million.
Located at 75 1/2 Bedford St. in Greenwich Village, the red brick building was built in 1873, sandwiched in a narrow space that used to be an alley between homes at 75 and 77 Bedford.
The narrow house is considered a curiosity and is one of the neighborhood's most photographed homes. A small plaque on the house notes that poet Edna St. Vincent Millay once lived there; so did anthropologist Margaret Mead.
Real estate broker Alex Nicholas says there is interest in the property and he has appointments on Thursday to show the home to three different potential buyers.
The residential interiors are a tight squeeze even by New York standards, measuring just 8 1/2 feet wide and 42 feet long on each of its three floors.
"Due to the narrowness of the house, I think you have to be very clever in how you decorate," Nicholas said.
The current owners bought the house for $1.6 million in 2000.
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I love that image!
HAHAHA! You win! HAHAHA! You win! HAHAHA!
These were from a plan in Montreal to construct affordable housing around the time of the World's fair. What's horrifying is that they actually became very trendy, and therefore very, very expensive.
You see similarly-positioned trailers in West Virginia quite often. It makes me wonder how one lives in a home so precariously perched on a steep hillside.
I would purely LOVE to see the insurance write-up on this house? Without a doubt it has got to be a classic. I wonder how it happened, hill mudslide is my best guess. Compliments to the builder for obvious great structural integrity.
The Upside Down House is a project created by a Polish businessman and philanthropist named Daniel Czapiewski, and is located in Poland in the tiny village of Szymbark, and here are a few pics with this house. Rather than simply being a bizarre tourist attraction this house, managed to attract thousands of tourists. The house is also meant to be a profound statement about the Communist era and the state of the world. Czapiewski’s company would normally take three weeks to construct a house, but this one took 114 days because the workers were disorientated by the strange angles of the walls. Many tourists who visit complain of mild seasickness and dizziness after just a few minutes of being in the structure.
With all of those exposed surfaces, I am willing to bet that even with great insulation these buildings are a b**ch to keep comfortable (especially the ones at the top). Architects love new and avant-garde but there is a penalty to be paid when priorities change. High energy costs make homes like these and the Phillip Johnson 'Glass House' less attractive for the upkeep.
Well, that and the fact that Montreal67 is ugly as s**t... and all the stairs!
Thank you very much for the explanation, it does relieve my mind. I was really having problems in figuring out, even from just the pictures, the hows and whys. The whole thing was just too neat yet as an 'art project' it was apparently too big. WOW!
You’re quite welcome. It’s quite a statement re: Communism
HAHAHA! That is soooooooooooooo wrong! HAHAHA!
You’d have to sleep standing up.
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