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Rare Brooklyn mansion asks $12.49M after a breathtaking renovation: ‘Had to be taken apart and put back together’
A 22-room classical mansion in Prospect Park South is on sale for $12.49 million, making it the most expensive listing in the bucolic Brooklyn neighborhood — one that seems a world apart from the city.
The unusual and wonderful Brooklyn residence that a “Colonial Revival on steroids” returned to the market on Monday with a major facelift, according to StreetEasy. The 11,000-plus-square-foot mansion listed for $12.49 million — a nearly $10 million jump from its last sale price.
The landmarkeꦦd home’s listing representative, Mike Lubin of Brown Harris Ste♔vens, told The Post that its current owner of eight years, an architect, restored the home to its former pre-war splendor.
“This is considered kind of the Grand Dame of the neighborhood,” Lubin ❀said. “It was built with a lot of architectural detail, and the scale is very, very dramatic.”
The home possesses the scale of a county manor, with stately two-✤story Ionic columns and an expansive porch. The interior spans 11,450 squa🐼re feet, including nine bedrooms and 7.5 bathrooms.
When the mansion was last snapped up for $2.75 million in 2017, it was in a state of disrepair with peeling paint and rotting wood marring the once-grand facade. You wouldn’t know it looking at the home today, howev𓄧er. The once “” home now boasts some of the most impressive curb appeal in the neighborhood, thanks to the extensive renovations.
These changes, according to Lubin, included bathroom, kitchen, roof, plumbing and central air upgrades — as well as restoring the pocket doors, fireplace mantels and 66 wood-framed windows.
“It was like a puzzle that had to be taken apart and put back together🔜,” Lubin said.
The front double doors lead to a coffered hall connected to a front parlor, a reception parlor, a mahogany-clad dining room and a library with bay window. The impressive chef’s kitchen has a 10-foot island, a marble farm sink and its own fireplace — one of many fireplaces throughout the home.
The third floor — a former ballroom with 16-foot ceilings — has been converted into an entertainment room featuring a decadent bar and a spiral staircase up to a reading nook.
The private backyard, with its large stone patio and green lawn, is one of highlights of the ho𓆏me for Lubin.
“You feel like you’re in Connecticut or Long Island,” Lubin said. “It doesn’t feel like an urban garden. It’s incredibly peaceful.”
Attempts by a previous agent to sell the home fo💦r a higher $12.95 🃏million between 2022 and 2023 were unsuccessful, but Lubin said this is partly to blame of the strangeness of the post-pandemic market.
“There were offꦗers, but none tha♒t they wanted to accept,” he said.
Prospect Park South was largely built by developer Dean A꧃lvord at the turn of the 20th century. Alvord had with a vision of suburbia in the 🍃middle of Brooklyn. This residence, at 1305 Albemarle Road, however, was built by the little-known architect Henry B. Moore in 1905.
The home was notably featured in the Osca🔯r-winnin💃g film “Reversal of Fortune,” and scenes from “Law and Order: Special Victims Unit” were filmed on the first floor.
The next owner of this opulent home will be in good company — the famed actress Michelle Williams bought her own 18-room mansion just down the block in 2016.
