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Park Slope Brownstone Near Prospect Park With Eight Mantels, Sauna Asks $9.99 Million

The rather exuberant design choices on the interior of this Park Slope brownstone may not be to every buyer’s taste but underneath the color and pattern there are some lush original features like mantels, stained glass and built-ins.

by Susan De Vries

09/22/2021 0

The rather exuberant design choices on the interior of this Park Slope brownstone may not be to every buyer’s taste. But underneath the color and pattern, there are some lush original features like mantels, stained glass and built-ins. The renovated two-family at 312 Garfield Place is also just a short walk from Prospect Park.

Located in the Park Slope Historic District, the brownstone is one of a row of three built by developer William Flanagan, who was busy constructing dwellings in Park Slope in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Flanagan filed plans for building the row of four-story houses with Classical details in the summer of 1900 and, by the fall of 1902, No. 312 was sold to its first owners, tobacco wholesaler Paul Calvi and wife Minerva Post Calvi.

While Mr. Calvi had only a year in the house before his death, Minerva Calvi maintained ownership until 1910. Her less than a decade in the house wasn’t a quiet one. She made the news in 1904 when roughly $4,000 worth of jewels were stolen from the house. The culprit? The butler did it. It took two years but he was eventually captured in Chicago.

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Mrs. Calvi was entertaining in the dining room at the time of the theft and the room, like much of the parlor level, is still packed with details. While the woodwork—including built-ins, wainscoting and columned mantel—in the rear-facing dining room is original, some of the plaster details in the front parlor have been added since it was last on the market. There are eight mantels in the house, most with original tile and inserts, and all the fireplaces are wood-burning, according to the listing. It’s not viewable in any of the listing photos but the floor plans show a dumbwaiter is still in place.

The garden level has been renovated with a streamlined white kitchen facing the rear, a media room and two bedrooms. While one is labeled a maid’s room, the floor plans show two half baths, with no full bath on the garden level, making it a bit inconvenient. Another half bath, the laundry and a sauna are located in the cellar.

There are four more bedrooms on the second and third floors, along with three full baths. While the front and rear bedrooms on the second floor are still connected via a passthrough with intact marble sinks and cabinetry, the renovated bathrooms have new fixtures, including an eye-popping purple sink.

The top floor has the second kitchen in the two-family, but the current owners have it set up as more of an entertainment zone than a separate suite. There is a home gym, family room with bar and access to a roof deck.

The rear garden is landscaped, according to the listing, and the house has central air. It last changed hands in 2015, before the most recent renovation, for $6.2 million.

Listed with Richard Steinberg and Carli Levitt of Compass, it is priced at $9.99 million. Do you think it will go for ask?

[Listing: 312 Garfield Place | Broker: Compass] GMAP