300 State Street

NEW PRICE...GOLDEN OPPORTUNITY! Steel-troweled concrete floors and wide-plank pine flooring. A blackened-steel dining table that seats 40 and monumental pocket doors. Radiant heat and four marble mantels. These surprising juxtapositions only begin to describe the reimagining of 300 State Street, a c.1851 townhouse on the National Register. This four-story, one-family home in Boerum Hill -- a luxurious 25-feet wide -- blends industrial materials and functionality with the opulence and grandeur of its original historical character. Its drama begins on the parlor level where graciously proportioned front and back rooms allow for after-dinner repose, soirees and even piano recitals. Tall mullioned windows and high ceilings allow light to effortlessly stream through the space. Rebelling against the convention of separate floors for separate functions, the parlor and garden levels are opened to each other, and from a glass-walled balcony, one can look down on the magnificent table below and out onto a lush garden. The award-winning program by Dean/Wolf Architects comes to fruition as you walk down the open stair and see a uniquely inventive space formerly second class and now pragmatic, inviting and beautiful. The operable window/door floating in the field of glass, is a heavy steel-framed door and window that gracefully pivot to introduce kitchen to garden and allow dinner parties to flow from inside to out. Other features in this loft-like space include a wood-burning fireplace; state-of-the-art appliances (six-burner Wolf stove with convection oven, Miele dishwasher, Sub-Zero refrigerator); and separate stations for prep, cooking and study. Central air, many linear feet of quarter sawn white ash cabinetry, two coat closets and a half bath add both comfort and organization to this level. The third and fourth floors have retained their traditional architectural detail and include four well-proportioned bedrooms, two study/nurseries and two full baths covered in floor-to-ceiling wainscoting. The top landing is gracefully lit by an oval skylight while muscular brick archways stand in the basement. At 300 State Street, 164 years separate the first fire being lit in its parlor fireplace and the latest meal being prepared in its 21st-century kitchen. This magnificent home magically collapses all that time and all its history, letting you live in the best of both worlds.