A large old Apartment building located at 72 Union Avenue at the corner of Clark Street is for sale. I found this interesting, mostly because it is right near where I live and also I find the building very unique and beautiful. Well, at least parts of it are beautiful.
What makes this building unique is that is actually really an assemblage of three separate structures. Like most of the stately homes along Union Avenue, 72 Union had a carriage house behind it. Well sometime long before I lived here someone (a Skidmore College official?) had the not-so-bright idea of building an addition to the back of the house which went all the way to the carriage house, creating a big brick 14-unit behemoth. I say the idea was not-so-bright because while it may have added useful living space, it really corrupted the beauty of the two formerly separate buildings. Oh well what's done is done and you can have all this income producing beauty and ugliness for a cool $2.9 million.
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