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Well-Kept Bay Ridge 1920s Brick House With Parquet, Arches, Garage Asks $1.35 Million

This one-family has windows on all four sides, a sunroom, and original details such as arched doorways, moldings and parquet floors.

by Susan De Vries

01/31/2022 4 minute 0

A modern small house when it was built in the 1920s, this Bay Ridge one-family appears neat as a pin. It has windows on all four sides, a sunroom, and original details such as arched doorways, moldings and parquet floors. There is also a finished basement, two-car garage, and nicely landscaped front and rear yards.

While the windows have been altered, 89 77th Street still has its brick stoop and restrained brick facade, the circa 1939 historic tax photo shows. A band of vertical bricks at the roofline serves as ornamentation and the single dormer is still in place above.

Shutters have been added and a raised brick planting bed provides some protected green space. While it isn’t clear if the Colonial Road Housing Corporation was behind the construction of this house, they were active in the surrounding blocks in the 1920s, advertising one-family houses with parquet floors, tiled bathrooms, parquet floors, preserve cellars and garages.

The fully detached house has been in the same family hands since the late 1980s, so the next owner might want to make some new design choices but the layout is fairly practical. Living, dining, kitchen, laundry and powder room are on the first floor, with three bedrooms and a full bath above. The basement has another full bath and a second kitchen.

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Perhaps taking some inspiration from Colonial Road around the corner, the interior has some Colonial Revival-style touches. A wide arched opening with trim and a keystone frames the sunroom. In the adjacent living room, a nice wooden mantel with mirror is likely to be a later addition.

Parquet floors continue into the dining room, which has wainscoting and an expanse of windows. The updated kitchen has a generous amount of white cabinets and an arched opening leads to a breakfast nook with French doors to the rear yard.

Upstairs the street-facing bedroom, the largest, has a window seat with some fretwork trim and two closets. The three bedrooms share the full bath remodeled with what feels like a nod to a bit more of a late 19th century style with bead board walls, a wood medicine cabinet and a bold green and white floral tile surrounding the tub.

Downstairs in the cellar, the full bath is a bit more as expected for a house of this era with Deco-era yellow wall tiles with black border tile and accessories and a built-in shower. The cellar has two stained glass windows and original 1920s textured plaster, moldings and doors with glass knobs. The second kitchen is not pictured.

A shared driveway leads to the garage, which is separated from a patio area by an evergreen hedge. The brick-paved patio area has room for dining and there is also a small triangle of lush lawn.

Jason Ma of Urban Luxe has the listing and it is price at $1.35 million. Worth the ask?

[Listing: 89 77th Street | Broker: Urban Luxe] GMAP