Infamously 'Ugly' House In LIC On The Market For $3.6M

LONG ISLAND CITY, QUEENS — An infamously ugly house in Long Island City is now on the market for millions.

The row house in question, located at 45-12 11th Street, has been dubbed a work of "Frank Lloyd crap" and awarded the title of "the ugliest building in Queens," but it's now on the market for $3.6 million — courtesy of real estate brokers who've instead described it as a "one-of-a-kind townhouse." The New York Post was first to report this story.

Owner and architect Thomas Paino bought the house with his partner, Peter Johnson, for $580,000 in 2009, after living next door for over a decade, the New York Times reported.

When Paino began renovating the six-bedroom home into two units, the city's Department of Buildings told him that he would have to raise the house three feet in order to keep the garden apartment as a livable space , since the home is in a flood-prone area.

Paino took the environmentally-conscious elevation and renovation process a step further: He added passive home features to his house — which maximize energy efficiency through construction techniques, like heavy-duty installation — and decided to decorate his new home with a cloud-themed facade.

"With the doors and windows and everything else three feet higher, it would have just looked all wrong" to replicate the neighboring facades, Paino told the Times, adding that he hoped the home's sustainable features — including a green roof and solar-powered water heater — would draw peoples' interest.

Indeed, locals noticed the house, but not for the reasons Paino intended: Local real estate blogs derided the home's design, and one of Paino's neighbors told the Times that she thought the design was disrespectful.

Paino, however, told the Times that he's happy as long as people are talking about the house. "I don’t really care what people say, so long as they’re talking about the house and the environment. That's the whole idea."

See the house listing here.