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BY STEPHEN ZACKS
Inside this three-story brickand
limestone townhouse
with a Neo-Georgian facade
and Arts & Crafts interior,
frothy details like mantels
that resemble wedding cakes
vie with rugged simplicity in
other places, such as the cutstone
and wood mantels in the
living room.
The spacious interior is unencumbered
by hallways and a
large stairwell, thanks to separate
entrances for each of the
units. It’s set up as an owner’s
duplex over a fl oor-through
garden apartment.
In the duplex’s living room,
a bench built into a stair with
Arts & Crafts newell caps,
posts, and handrails faces the
aforementioned stone mantel,
emphasizing the open proportions.
The room has bookcases
built into either side of a bay
window and a beamed ceiling,
all parqueted up through the
double doors to the formal dining
room.
The ornate mantel in the
latter features aristocratic
heads with powder wigs atop
spear-decorated columns and
cross members dolled up with
a lot of foliage.
There’s a coffered ceiling
and wainscoting to match, as
well as French doors to a rear
balcony with stairs down to
the garden.
The dining room wallpaper
was already there
when the current sellers
bought the house in 2011 for
$960,000.
Through the back of the
dining room, the kitchen has
abundant cabinets that appear
to be vintage circa late 1930s,
or possibly original with replacement
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slab doors. Somehow
the kitchen still has room
with all of the cabinets for a
breakfast table and a combo
washer-dryer to serve the
three-bedroom duplex.
A fl oor-through one-bedroom
on the fi rst fl oor is
not pictured in the listing,
from Debra Bondy and Sally
Marmet of Compass.
Designed by prolifi c
Brooklyn and Long Island
architect Benjamin Dreisler,
365 Parkside Ave. belongs to a
row of 10 that, in the fashion
of the time, have no stoops
along the whole stretch, possibly
to accommodate the
new luxury item of the time,
the horseless carriage — also
known as the automobile.
At any rate, this one has a
curb cut and room for parking
in front, according to the listing,
where a stoop might have
otherwise stood.
The row was built in 1914
during the infancy of Brooklyn’s
Parkside Avenue, previously
known as Robinson
Street.
Our own Suzanne Spellen
(aka Montrose Morris)
wrote about other houses
on the block, largely developed
as duplexes between
the 1890s and 1914 by
William A.A. Brown.
A study of the area, including
this block, was done
in 2017 to determine the eligibility
of a Melrose Park National
Register Historic District.
The townhouse is now asking
almost double its last sale
price eight years ago: $1.875
million.
What do you think?
Neo-Georgian in PLG
Brick-and-limestone home with parking asks $1.875M
The home’s gaping living area, complete with fi replace and parquet
fl oors, gets tons of natural light. Compass
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