Townhouses along the leafy streets of the are some of the most coveted in . One unique example recently came to market for the first time in decades, and it’s nothing like what you’d expect or have ever seen. Known as the Bubble House, the $5.8 million single-family residence will stop you dead in your tracks as it stands in dramatic fashion on a block lined with otherwise traditional brownstones. A group of agents led by Richard Pretsfelder at Leslie Garfield holds .

The building began as a pretty typical Victorian townhouse from the mid-1860s, with elaborate carved details that were de rigueur for the time. In 1969, after it had been converted to apartments and the same year astronauts first landed on the moon, the old house rebuilt as a single-family home by architect Maurice Medcalfe

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