Brooklyn Heights Standalone With Designer Showcase Touches, Parking Asks $7.6 Million

After a bit of a style tweak on the interior, this Brooklyn Heights wood frame is back on the market. The gray-shingled standalone at 13 Pineapple hosted the Brooklyn Heights Designer Showhouse in 2019 and some of the bold finishes were left in place, adding another layer to the long history of the single family home.

In the Brooklyn Heights Historic District, the large Federal-style house has its share of folklore attached to it — some of it provided by Truman Capote. Constructed in the 1820s, it has had a few alterations over the years, including the Italianate-style cornice added in the 1870s and a Colonial Revival face lift in the late 1930s. A small garage was added in the 1940s and still provides the perk of off-street parking.

It’s a substantial standalone with a lot that takes up 50 feet of frontage on Pineapple Street and an interior of some 4,000 square feet that benefits from windows on all four exposures, an uncommon feature in the neighborhood. Spread over four floors are an eat-in kitchen, dining room, parlor, seven bedrooms and 3.5 baths.

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While the rooms are no longer filled with the showhouse furnishings, some of the updates, like the major overhaul to the kitchen, remain. Previously filled with wood cabinets and blue and white tile, it got a terra-cotta tile makeover by Jesse Parris-Lamb with streamlined white cabinets and a custom painted floor.

In addition to the garage, there is a paved rear garden with planting beds and a view to 70 Willow Street from which Truman Capote had his own view back at the “silvery gray, shingle-wood Colonial.”

It was priced at $10.5 million when it was a House of the Day in 2017, and the price dropped a few times before being taken off the market in 2019. With fresh photos of the recently updated interior, it is now listed with Leslie Marshall and James Cornell of Corcoran at $7.6 million. Worth the ask?

[Listing: 13 Pineapple Street | Broker: Corcoran] GMAP

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