Wednesday, January 25, 2023

Architecture Wednesday: SoHo Loft

Believe it or not, this home is as old as the Minnesota Manor House from last week, but this isn’t huge, per se, it’s a loft … in the heart of Soho on a picturesque, cobblestoned block between Spring and Prince streets.

This one sits on the 4th floor of a pet-friendly co-op designed by Henry Fernbach in 1883, and it was formerly home to Greene Street Recording Studio of Public Enemy and Sonic Youth fame.

Enter through a key-locked elevator that opens into an airy, open-plan living and kitchen area. Farmhouse-style doors lead to the private spaces of the home, which include office, built-in closets, and in-unit washer/dryer. There are three bedrooms, and just two bathrooms, but it’s a wide-open main room with 11-foot ceilings, floor-to-ceiling windows on both the eastern and western sides of the loft, a rear-facing terrace, original wood columns and beams, walls of exposed brick, and hardwood floors.

And had we moved quicker I could have had it for a shade over $4M.

23 comments:

  1. krayolakris9:45 AM

    Kind of a ‘70s vibe. Meh.

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    1. I'm not seeing that, but maybe it's the furnishings?

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  2. If it weren't so white. And, honestly, I hate farmhouse doors. They're very trendy right now, but give me something I can open and shut, not slide.

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  3. Well, if you had to live in a city...
    Doggy here says 'needs a yard'.
    xoxo :-)

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    1. It'd be one of my top choices!
      xoxo

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  4. Seriously...you had me at the all white...exposed brick...and pine beams and columns!!!! Rustic chic...and yet modern. And you know I'm loving the architecture of the exterior building!!! Love it!

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    1. I'm with you about the beams and the brick and the crispness of the white and those m-effing windows; I love those windows!

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  5. I SOho wanted a SoHo loft in the ´70s. Then, they were cheap and barren. This would do nicely though had I not just spent 12 million on something else. Maybe next month.

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    1. If we'd only known then what we know now .... and had the coins even then.

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  6. There is something about it that seems unfinished. I love a loft and the roughness of it BUT. Also the living room faces WEST and that can be brutal with the afternoon sun. I have so many questions-Sound insulation, heating and cooling, how are the mechanics of the place----

    How about Health Ledger's Soho place. All we have to do is spend a little more, a lot more:

    https://nypost.com/2021/11/16/penthouse-in-heath-ledger-death-building-sells-for-record-49m/

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    1. Mechanics, schmechanics, if you can afford it, you can fix the trifling details.

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  7. I don't love everything about it but it's definitely more my style! Except the price.

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    1. I'd empty out the furniture and lose some of those unnecessary rooms, and then start layering in some good taste ... if I had the dough!

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  8. This I could do. Love all the sunshine. Too many bedrooms. I do like the master. And the bathroom is too small... I want my dressing room/closet to open to my bathroom. And not a fan of most of the decor. But love the building. Love the white. Love the light.

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    1. The decor is hazardous, and i would love a bigger bathroom, too, but you're spot on about the windows!

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  9. I showed this to the MITM and his first words were, "You're too old for that, sweetheart!" SweetMarySunshine, but that man so misses the point sometimes! LOL xoxo

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    1. To spite the MITM, buy the loft and show him you're never too old!!!
      xoxo

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  10. Oh, I believe you.
    And when can I move in? Love the white and the windows and most everything. And shockingly, I agree with Dave and those damn doors. Ugh.

    XOXO

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    1. I don't mind a barn door, maybe because it goes with the rough beams. But those windows? oh, I love a good big window.
      xoxo

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  11. Not a fan, too open. I like to be able to get away from people. I agree with you about the windows though. I bought our present house because of all the windows.

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  12. I always thought a loft was the very top floor. Not that it matters, this one isn't for me.

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  13. I like the lightness, brightness, a lot of small rooms, and there appear to be steps either up or down into both bathrooms, and at my age, I need to think ahead of accessibility.

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