Many buyers may think they have to choose between old-world character and modern design. This circa-1901 brownstone shows otherwise. While a Gilded Age-era exterior welcomes you from the front and from the garden, its recent renovation brings a fresh brightness with clean, bright interiors that lift every room. Asking $6.5 million, the Park Slope brownstone is the best of both worlds.
Located two blocks from Prospect Park, the home is introduced by a brick and brownstone façade with bay windows, leaded glass, and stone carvings. Heading inside, it encompasses 3,500 square feet across four floors with an additional 1,200 square feet of outdoor space. The parlor floor wows with high ceilings and an original honey-toned, hand-carved staircase bannister as well as a prized marble mantlepiece from the Plaza Hotel. Around this historic details, chic and minimalist furnishings can clearly blend effortlessly as they do in the listing photographs.
On the garden level, an eat-in kitchen leads to the dreamy double-height glass solarium, a space signature to the era the home was built in. Framed in black steel with walls made of white brick, and clad in ivy outside, it provides greenhouse-like vitality and can be used as a flexible gathering or relaxation destination.
The remaining top two floors are reserved for the bedrooms. There are three bedrooms on the third floor, the largest of which is complete with an ensuite bathroom and bay window. The primary suite connects to its sleek, marble-and-stone bathroom through a dressing room. Then, up one more modern staircase, the stylish roof deck with sweeping city views awaits.
Redone carefully, this home seems tailor-made for someone who wants the character of an antique New York City home without the fuss of modernizing it. Move-in-ready in a family-oriented Brooklyn location, it’s listed with Roberta Golubock of Sotheby’s International Realty.
