Crown Heights

Crown Heights Limestone With Mantels, Stained Glass Asks $2.5 Million

Designed and built by Henry Hill in the early 20th century as a two-family, this well-kept limestone with original details has a spacious owner’s duplex.

crown heights - bow front row house with stoop

Photo via Compass

by Susan De Vries

09/30/2024 0

This limestone in Crown Heights offers some period details as well as the opportunity for a new owner to make some style upgrades. Details inside 1135 Park Place include mantels, stained glass, wainscoting, pocket doors, and wood floors.

In the Crown Heights North III Historic District, the bow-front limestone row house with a brownstone base is one of four built by owner and builder Henry B. Hill. Hill, who also acted as the architect, filed plans for the four two-family dwellings in January of 1902. By the fall of that year he was touting in ads the houses as “positively the best located two-family circular front stone houses ever built” in the area with all the “new features.”

The Renaissance Revival row house is still a two-family, now set up with a one-bedroom garden rental and owner’s duplex above. The owner’s duplex has living, dining, and kitchen on the parlor level along with one bedroom and a full bath. Upstairs are two large and two small bedrooms, and another full bath.

The parlor floor is filled with unpainted woodwork, including an entry with fretwork, wainscoting, a mirror, and stair. Pocket doors open into the front parlor, which has a grand console mirror and a bay fitted with stained glass panels. French doors topped by stained glass lead to the windowless second parlor, which has been turned into a dining room.

Most of its features are intact, including a built-in wardrobe and pocket doors leading to a large rear bedroom. A section of a side wall has been opened up to what is now a kitchen, carved out of a former hallway and bathroom. There’s plenty of worktop and storage while the gray cabinets and brown floor, counter, and backsplash have room for a design rethink.

The rear bedroom is generously sized, with a bay window, and a mantel. The full bath is accessible via the bedroom and the kitchen.

Upstairs the large front and rear bedrooms both have columned mantels. The rear one, formerly a dining room, has a built-in china cabinet with mirror. The street-facing bedroom can be set up as a large suite with access to the adjoining petite bedroom and the windowless middle room.

In the garden unit, the house’s former dining room is set up as a living room with wainscoting, a columned mantel, and closet. The kitchen, like the one above, is without a dishwasher but has a stone counter and subway wall tile and appears in good repair.

The only laundry room indicated for the house is in the extension off the garden apartment. It also provides access to the rear yard, which has a paved patio and chain link fence.

The property last sold in 2006 for $300,000. Listed with Steffen Kral, Alexander Daigh, Kellyn Goudie, and Gerald Pennant of Compass, the house is asking $2.5 million. What do you think?

[Listing: 1135 Park Place | Broker: Compass] GMAP