An architect who has been among the leading proponents of the funky, colorful historical character of Carl Street Studios in Old Town is selling a condo she rehabbed there.
Trish VanderBeke is asking $325,000 for the one-bedroom, 900-square-foot unit, which has much of its original wood and tile details from the 1920s, when a group of artists created the quaint complex of out of an 1870s mansion.
Since buying the unit for $250,000 in 2014, VanderBeke has updated the kitchen, added laundry machines and restored the fireplace and other original details.
Key among them, she said, is the street-facing window two stories high. At some point, its multicolored stained-glass trim was replaced with transparent glass, which “completely changed the experience of the building for both the occupants (particularly during the day) and anyone passing by at night," VanderBeke said in an email. "I purchased the unit primarily to have a chance to restore the window.”
She found the Canadian firm that made the original windows and persuaded owners of two other units with street-facing windows to install them as well.
“The windows once again hang like glowing paintings on the wall,” she wrote in the email.
That's how it must have looked when completed in the 1920s by a band of artisans led by Sol Kogen, Edgar Miller and Jesus Torres. They transformed the old mansion into 17 units filled with eclectic details made of carved wood, colorful tile and stained glass.
VanderBeke has been renting out the unit, which went on the market last week, the condo has been a rental. VanderBeke owns one other rental unit at Carl Street and owns a third unit, where she has her office. In 2015 she bought a greystone three-flat next door from an owner who planned to replace it with a new condo building.
VanderBeke and other preservationists had worried that demolition and construction on that site would threaten the structural soundness of the Carl Street building and detract from the artsy charm of the blocklong street, which has other distinctive older buildings, including the Art Moderne Theophil Studios. VanderBeke operates the greystone as rentals as well.
The rehabbed condo she is selling is on two levels. The living room is two stories high, and on the condo’s second floor are a bedroom, bath and study. The unit does not have a parking space or garage.
VanderBeke is selling without a real estate agent and suggested that interested buyers use Google to find her firm, P.K. VanderBeke Architect.
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