1305 Albemarle: Most Famous Digs?
Correct us if we’re wrong, locals, but we’d guess that the 1905 classical-revival mansion at 1305 Albemarle Road is the most widely recognized house in Victorian Flatbush. (The house starred as Alan Dershowitz’s Boston home in the 1990 film Reversal of Fortune according to this site.) Wasn’t this the house that was on the market…
Correct us if we’re wrong, locals, but we’d guess that the 1905 classical-revival mansion at 1305 Albemarle Road is the most widely recognized house in Victorian Flatbush. (The house starred as Alan Dershowitz’s Boston home in the 1990 film Reversal of Fortune according to this site.) Wasn’t this the house that was on the market for a long time last year for, like, $4 million? According to Property Shark, the same person has owned it since 2002. The second photo is a view looking East on Albemarle.
Mary Pickford never lived in Ditmas Park West. The house was home to the Guterman family from the time it was built until the 1940s. Sorry to dispell the myth.
The Mary Pickford house is on Rugby and Ditmas. I heard that it was built for her but she never actually lived in it. She supposedly opted to live on Ablemarle next door to Vincent Price….can’t say it is fact but have heard that angle a few times.
Please double-check that Chaplin fact–not sure it’s true.
This was back in the days when Vitagraph Studios was thriving in Midwood, near Avenue M. The studio is now home to an Orthodox school for girls.
Mary Pickford’s former home (with a barbeque pit in the basement) is the Tudor on the corner of Ditmas Avenue and Argyle in Ditmas Park West.
Charlie Chaplin lived in one of the two brick mansions on Ocean Avenue, near Ditmas Ave. in Ditmas Park.
Agree w/anon at 3:02 re: most famous local houses. This mansion had been on the market for something like 2 years for $1 million in the 90s–unheard of pricing then–and a guy bought it and tried renting it out for parties, photo shoots, etc. It is not well done on the inside–and the top floor is a warren of weird, tiny little rooms.
Albemarle Terrace was a typo… there was another thread recently re: ALbemarle Terrace.
http://home.att.net/~ebasics/prospectparksouth.html
Brief discussion w/photos of the architectural history of PPS.
I’d love to see some photos of those other famous homes you guys mentioned…possibly a new feature here?