This contemporary mansion used to be a former Presbyterian Church. It is located at 832-36 Lombard Street in Philadelphia, PA. It was restored in 2010 and boasts over 8,000 square feet of living space with 5 bedrooms, 3 full and 2 half bathrooms, oversized European kitchen, sun room, terrace, an amazing main living area with 54ft high ceilings leading straight up to a dramatic skylight and wooden beams, high-end finishes and materials throughout, library/screening room located on the Mezzanine, wine cellar, 2-car garage with radiant heated floors, 1080 square foot front yard and car port and a 400 square foot side yard with grill and an elevator. It is listed at $3,600,000.
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Ew. Exposed girders. No thanks.
I like some of the fixtures – like the argyle bathroom tile – but they’re probably going to be out of style in a few years. Not an enduring style.
The kitchen looks like an IKEA showroom. And not in a good way.
It’s hard to get a sense of the floor plan from these pictures.
Travis, I totally disagree with you about the fireplace. That’s by far my least favorite attribute. The heavy-looking, low opening creates a lot of visual tension. Why, when it comes to contained fires, would less be more? Give me a nice big opening.
Let me reword that: I think that the tile soround is gorgeous. Although I like the low, long modern openings for fireplaces, this house should have something bigger, especially in a room with 54ft ceilings!
i agree with u on the fireplace. plus it just doesnt make sense to the mind’s eye because it doesn’t attach to a chimney or anything. either its one of those electric fireplaces (which i absolutely abhor) or the smoke just fills the room whenever they use it? who knows but i don’t get it at all…
Uhm…
I’d have to see more of the outside and inside, but I kind of lost interest at the 2-car garage.
I rather like the juxtaposition of the classical exterior and the ultra contemporary interior. I think if it was artfully furnished, it would be a striking residence.
Well said.
Very nicely done conversion! Typically for a city location the yard seems relatively small, but, on the whole, not at all inappropriate. I think the idea of preserving the external structure instead of tearing it down and putting up a soulless block of apartments for example deserves a huge thumbs up.
When I was in my late 20′s, my wife and I bought an old church and thad a dream of turning it into our first home, but in the back of my mind Iwas always worried it would be a little irreverent, and was hesitent about doing it. Luckily, before we started the reno (it took us a while to save enough money, and our credit score was to bad to get a big enough loan) a large oak tree fell on the little wooden chrch during a thunderstorm, so my worry of being irreverent was gone. We ended up building a small home on the land with our saved money, and we actually still use it as a weekend home today.
This home has been for sale for over a year — when I looked at it, it was priced at $5.2 million. Not a chance. The seller needs to reduce it even further….there are years’ worth of multi-million dollar properties for sale in Philadelphia. There ‘s nothing wrong with any home that price can’t fix.
Uh no.
Like Mak said, I like the juxtaposition between the classical and the modern. I think it could be beautiful if it were furnished properly. As others have brought up, I am not a fan of the low, wide fireplace opening in this and a lot of other modern residences. I’m guessing this one has a layer of glass beads inside that the fire burns through…seen it already, too many times. This one looks a little like a mouth gaping at one side of the room. I like the zebrawood used in the cabinetry, but I don’t like the red bathroom vanity; it looks kind of cheap to me. Those minor things that could easily be changed and with some high quality modern furnishings it would be stunning.
Why the pessimism? He could go to heaven for preserving a church.
