A Cinematographer Photographer Turns a Warehouse Into His House. Charles Street, is a red brick building into his studio, his office and his home. Now he can survey the 2,750-square-foot studio (empty except for an enormous roll of white paper hung from the 16-foot ceiling) from the mezzanine and say, ''I never thought I'd ever own anything like this.'' ''I kept looking and looking, and I kept coming back to 162 Charles Street. One particularly sunny day we walked up to the roof and the sun was moving across the water and I said: 'O.K., let's think about this place.' It was pretty hypnotic.'' Mr. Seliger bid on the building. He thought he had the deal. Then the real estate broker who had actually listed the property ( not his own agent, James Lansill of Stribling-Wells & Gay) called to say that the other people had made a slightly higher offer, but that ''the first person who signs a contract gets it. Last May I paid $950,000 for the late 19th-century building, which contained close to 12,000 square feet of usable space in the then-four-story space. (He has since eliminated a floor and added a mezzanine, bringing the total down to 10,000 square feet.)
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