We drove past this former mansion this weekend after a visit to Home Depot in Bed Stuy. Located at 441 Willoughby, this gorgeous structure stopped us in our (tire) tracks. With little ones squawking in the back seat, we didn’t get to linger and really take the whole place in, but we did have time to snap this photo, knowing we’d want to ask the readership about it. It’s hard to tell whether this was a former residence or had some church-related function. (For most of the past two decades the deed was held by the Masonic Temple Management Company. Property Shark shows that the property changed hands in 2003 for $40,000, which had to be an inside deal.) We also were very impressed with this whole block of Willoughby East of Nostrand. Wall to wall brownstones with not a single tear-down or abandoned house. Emblematic of Bed Stuy’s patchwork nature however is the juxtaposition to Hart Street, just one block north south, which is a wasteland of vinyl-siding and garbage-strewn lots. Amazing contrast. GMAP