Address: 829 Park Ave., Baltimore 21201
List price: $3,495,000
Year built: 1900
Real estate agent: Charlie Hatter of Monument Sotheby’s International Realty
Last sold price/date: For $925,000 on April 29, 2022
Property size: 9,971-square-foot home has seven bedrooms, three full bathrooms and two half-bathrooms plus a two-car attached garage on 0.12 acres.
Unique features: It’s difficult to know which is the most opulent decorative flourish in this 125-year-old brownstone in Baltimore’s Mount Vernon neighborhood. Is it the 2-foot tall plaster moldings that run like a band across the top of the public rooms? Or how about the wood-paneled entrance hall, with the grand stairway that culminates in a spectacular stained-glass skylight?
It might be the conservatory, in which Italian marble columns harmoniously coexist with such modern touches as the exposed beam ceiling. Or perhaps it is the mahogany-paneled dining room with its elaborately carved wooden moldings, coffered ceiling and inlaid hardwood floors.
This home is known as “The Knabe House” because the lot was owned by a renowned family of piano manufacturers between 1885 and 1906. The original factory was located where M&T Bank Stadium stands now, and early customers included “Star-Spangled Banner” composer Francis Scott Key, who commissioned a custom, square grand piano for his home.
But for all its period charm, the new owners of The Knabe House will find plenty of modern amenities: an exterior electronic entrance gate, an elevator that stops at all four floors, a kitchen with Thermador appliances and a brass-colored farmhouse sink, and a gorgeous bathroom with a seamless shower enclosure, gleaming walls of cobalt and gold tile and a freestanding soaking tub.
The conservatory leads to an outdoor deck large enough for entertaining that is nestled beneath a magnolia tree. The walled-in motor court provides the most coveted of urban amenities — private parking for five cars.
