Located on picturesque Willow Place, this mid-19th century brick row house offers up four floors of living space along with the comfort of central air conditioning, which is sounding appealing in the midst of a hot summer. If that isn’t enough to cool you off, the landscaped rear yard of 9 Willow Place includes a waterfall, albeit in miniature form.

The Anglo-Italianate row house dates to the late 1850s and the street is filled with an interesting mix of 19th, and even some 20th century, architecture. While it is within the Brooklyn Heights Historic District, the area has its own distinct community group — the Willowtown Association was formed in 1953. No. 9 is at the end of a row and a twin with its neighbor at No. 11. The three-bay-wide houses both have brownstone stoops and curved lintels, tall parlor level windows and simple dentil cornices.

Historic newspapers show the 19-foot-wide house served as a boarding house for “a few gentlemen” at least as early as the 1870s. It was a two-family in 1979, according to a certificate of occupancy, but a 1992 certificate, following a 1989 sale and renovation, records it as a single-family.


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The 1989 sale was the last time the house changed hands, and while the listing photos show an interior that looks to be well cared for, a new owner might want to make some style upgrades. There are some wide planked floorboards on the parlor level and some period moldings but the interior also shows a mix of alterations over the centuries, including to some of the four mantels in the house. The Colonial Revival-style mantel in the front parlor surrounds a wood burning fireplace and the room also has a tin ceiling, as does the dining room beyond. Here the fireplace has been outfitted for wine storage.

At the rear of the parlor floor, the kitchen, with wood cabinets and green stone counters, boasts a wall of windows and glass doors leading out to a wood deck.

The upper two stories also have outdoor space along with two bedrooms and a full bath per floor. All the bedrooms are shown with wall to wall carpeting but perhaps there are more of those nice wide floorboards underneath.

Both of the full baths shown — there are 3.5 total in the house — have platformed tubs with tile covered steps.

There are more wood floors visible on the garden level, where there is another bedroom, a media room with built-in shelves and a billiard room. Presumably that pool table isn’t included, so that space — which has glass doors opening to the rear yard — could be put to another use.

At the rear of the garden, a stone patio, which is large enough for dining, overlooks the aforementioned mini waterfall. Its three levels flow down a rocky slope and into a brick basin. Stone and brick walls, plantings and a tree provide an atmospheric backdrop.

Listed with Cara Sadownick, Zoe N. Saaf and Cheryl Nielsen-Saaf of Corcoran, the property is asking $5.9 million. What do you think?

[Listing: 9 Willow Place | Broker: Corcoran] GMAP

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the interior of 9 willow place in brooklyn heights

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the interior of 9 willow place in brooklyn heights

the interior of 9 willow place in brooklyn heights

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