Welcome to 329 Washington Ave, located on the coveted Washington Avenue's, "Mansion Row", one of the best blocks in Brooklyn and Fort Greene/Clinton Hill.
Ready for the its next chapter, the house is completely turnkey, beautifully detailed, and modernized. It has been fully renovated with all of the modern amenities and luxuries including radiant heat floors throughout, central air, a beautiful new curving walnut stairway and all new oak plank floors. Plus for fireplace lovers, there are working gas fireplaces & marble mantels on each floor too! It is a legal Two Family but for the last twenty years, it has been used as a single family.
Measuring a massive 22 feet in width and 45 feet deep, and four stories high, there is 3500sf of interior space. When one enters from the street and through the 19th Century columned entry way, the over-sized 20 foot wide entry way is stunning featuring the new beautiful curving walnut stairway and the marble and mosaic floors. The family room/screening room lies behind the entry way and can easily be restored back to a tenant apartment. It has a powder room and a full kitchen.
Upstairs on the second floor there's a double parlor that's used as a living room and formal dining room, each measuring over 20 feet apiece. The living room is flooded with light from its three oversized 9 foot windows looking west over Washington Ave. The enormous ornately carved 10 foot in height formal fireplace surround and mirror dominates the room. The dining room is separated by French doors and has a large bay window facing east with a great view and light, looking out to the pine trees in the backyard. The kitchen is connected to the dining room though another set of French doors, as well as the rear deck and stairs to the garden. The kitchen is set up for avid cooks! It is very home chef friendly and its appliances are supersized with a 48 inch Thermador stove which has both a grill and griddle option plus a double oven and a 48 inch Subzero fridge. The dishwasher is the two drawer Fisher Paykal. There's plenty of prep space, black granite marble counters and lots of honey colored shaker cabinets. Upstairs, there are 3 bedrooms, a private home office and 2 full baths. Each of the bedrooms on the third floor are over-sized with generous proportions and great closet space. They share a large hallway bath. Up on the top floor, the primary bedroom and bath take up the entire fourth floor with an en-suite bath featuring a large ten foot double vanity and limestone counter top and floors. The primary bedroom is enormous and bedroom has three windows facing west over Washington Ave plus an enormous skylight and is flooded in light. There's a separate Kohler soaking tub, and a large shower which is also a steam shower with a frameless glass surround and door. The closet space is generous and there's a custom gentlemen's closet plus a separate custom shoe closet too.
The garden level is set up as an open studio floorplan and acts as an entertainment/family room. It has a half bath and kitchen. The half bath can be easily enlarged to a full bath with the adjacent closet where the shower hookups were maintained. The actual garden is about 55 feet in length and allows for a large seating area. See the attached floorplan for reincorporating the Garden Apartment as a separate unit.
One of the oldest houses on Washington Ave,, the house was built in 1880 for one of Brooklyn's famous citizens at the time, Thomas Joseph Wechsler, founder of the retail store A & S which was originally known as Wechsler & Abraham located at 285 Fulton Street. At some point in its history, 329 and its twin next door, 327 Washington Ave facades were changed with their stoops removed. 329 has a central ground floor entrance with columned portico and upper Juliet balcony were added. However, the original neo-Grec roof cornice remains. Mechanicals have all been redone recently. Real Estate Ta
