Top 10 Brooklyn Real Estate Listings: 19th Century Gothic Charmer, Detail Packed Brownstone

Historic homes were the name of the game this week — Brownstoner readers were looking for homes with some vintage Brooklyn character. Among the most popular listings were houses by prolific Brooklyn architects Amzi Hill and Benjamin Dreisler and a picturesque 1879 gothic mews house in Cobble Hill.

The favorites were scattered across the borough, with multiple listings in Prospect Lefferts Gardens and Park Slope. The cheapest home on the list was a Windsor Terrace co-op priced at $750,000, and the most expensive was a $5.5 million Prospect Heights limestone that has been popular with readers for several weeks.

Which would you choose?

10. On Sterling Place in the Prospect Heights Historic District is a venerable four-story circa 1901 Renaissance Revival limestone by architect Benjamin Driesler, with a barrel front. It’s got some nice original details, including Tiffany stained glass window transoms, a hallway pier mirror, leaded glass French doors, a coffered dining room ceiling, wainscoting, and a pair of fireplace mantels. It’s set up as a two-family, with a five-bedroom triplex below.

372 Sterling Place
Price: $3.8 million
Area: Prospect Heights
Broker: Suzanne Forrester
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9. Sold three times in the last three years, this Prospect Lefferts Gardens house is an interesting one, at least when viewed from the outside. It’s a detached single-family frame house wedged in between a pair of brick buildings on Midwood Street. There’s less character within, where it’s recently renovated, though there’s a nice kitchen with a farmhouse vibe, with black slate floors, a farmhouse sink and glass doors leading to the backyard. There’s no floor plan, but it’s said to have three bedrooms and two baths.

288 Midwood Street
Price: $1.325 million
Area: Prospect Lefferts Gardens
Broker: Fillmore (Bryan Ecock)
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8. This two-family circa 1899 Park Slope brownstone offers a fetching blend of original details and modern updating, and is in prime condition. It’s at 510 7th Street, between 7th and 8th avenues, a block and half from Prospect Park and within the Park Slope Extension Historic District.

510 7th Street
Price: $2.999 million
Area: Park Slope
Broker: Compass (Maxine Resnick, Alyssa Morris)
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7. This iconic Gothic brick and rarely available townhouse at 26 Warren Place sits in one of Brooklyn’s most sought after communities, Cobble Hill’s Warren Place Mews. Built by philanthropist Alfred Tredway White in 1879 as worker housing, the diminutive but coveted properties share a front landscaped garden and backyard space.

26 Warren Place
Price: $2.049 million
Area: Cobble Hill
Broker: Brooklyn Bridge Realty (Ellen Gottlieb)
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6. This 1885 Park Slope brownstone is an eye-catcher, full of elegant original details, including seven mantels, loads of carved mahogany and a lovely stained glass atrium at the top of the staircase. It stands amid many of the Slope’s most impressive manses, at 56 8th Avenue between Union Street and Berkeley Place in the Park Slope Historic District.

56 8th Avenue
Price: $5.5 million
Area: Park Slope
Broker: Corcoran (Jessica Buchman, Tim Rettaliata)
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5. This renovated two-bedroom co-op in Windsor Terrace has prewar details, decent proportions and a berth across the street from Prospect Park. It’s in a 16-unit, circa-1917 building at 10 Prospect Park Southwest, just off Bartel-Pritchard Square, at the park’s western corner.

10 Prospect Park SW, Apt #10
Price: $750,000
Area: Windsor Terrace
Broker: Corcoran (Deborah Rieders, Sarah Shuken)
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4. On Stuyvesant Avenue in Bed Stuy, we’ve got a circa 1884 brownstone by Brooklyn architect Amzi Hill that’s in mid-renovation. It was bought in November by an LLC that seems to have started an overhaul and decided to sell as-is rather than finish it. There’s a one-bedroom apartment on the top floor that looks to be newly renovated (which, the listing notes, would be “your perfect perch” for overseeing the completion of the downstairs).

294 Stuyvesant Avenue
Price: $1.985 million
Area: Bed Stuy
Broker: Compass (MTkalla Keaton, Shonnette Yearwood)
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3. In Prospect Lefferts Gardens on Winthrop Street is a bay-front brick row house with a parking space in front. A legal two-family set up as a single residence, it’s got four small to smallish bedrooms and two baths on the upper floor. There are hardwood floors and some details, including a functioning fireplace with a marble mantel in the living room.

148 Winthrop Street
Price: $1.675 million
Area: Prospect Lefferts Gardens
Broker: Douglas Elliman (Maureen Hogan, Jeffrey Block)
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2. In Bed Stuy, we’ve got a three-story brownstone on Hancock Street. Photos are sparse and suggest that work is needed, but there are original details there that would reward the effort, including five mantels, stained glass window transoms, wainscoting, pocket doors and shutters, and plaster crown moldings. It’s currently set up as a three-family, with an apartment on each floor.

829 Hancock Street
Price: $1.25 million
Area: Bed Stuy
Broker: Halstead (Joseph Martinez, Ban Leow)
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1. This home is on Empire Boulevard in Crown Heights, where we land on a narrowish (16.5 feet) three-story brick house with a bay front. It’s set up as a two-family, with a three-bedroom duplex over a one-bedroom garden rental. Condition seems to be mixed — what’s shown is in fine shape, including original hardwood floors in excellent repair and an original center staircase.

285 Empire Boulevard
Price: $975,000
Area: Crown Heights
Broker: Compass (Jim Winters, Ali Raza)
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