Well-Preserved Brooklyn Heights Greek Revival With Mantels, Vaulted Ceiling Asks $7.75 Million

The wide brick row house has copious period details intact, including black marble mantels and an original stair.

by Susan De Vries

08/01/2022 3 minute 0

An easy stroll from the Brooklyn Heights Promenade, this Greek Revival multi-family hasn’t been on the market in decades. The 25-foot-wide brick row house at 42 Willow Street has copious period details intact, including black marble mantels and an original stair, as well as attractive modern updates such as a vaulted double-height great room and nicely landscaped backyard.

Within the Brooklyn Heights Historic District, the circa 1845 brick row house is a legal five-family according to the 1966 certificate of occupancy, although a DOB permit for a renovation completed in 2003 described it as a four-family. It is currently set up as three-family with a garden apartment and two duplexes above.

The lower duplex includes the parlor level with the aforementioned black marble mantels in the front parlor and rear dining room, floor to ceiling windows, simple original moldings and later parquet floors. In the dining room, French doors open to a covered rear porch. The adjoining galley kitchen isn’t shown but the floor plans indicates it is windowed with a dishwasher and access to a powder room.

Upstairs are two bedrooms, a full bath with a shower, laundry and an office. Both bedrooms have marble mantels; there are eight total in the house.

The three-bedroom upper duplex got an update in 2001, according to the listing, creating a vaulted ceiling in the great room, lit with skylights. It has a full bath per floor, neither of which are shown, as well as laundry and office space.

No views are included of the one-bedroom garden apartment but it has a rear-facing kitchen with a dishwasher and 1.5 baths.

The landscaped rear yard faces the rear of an apartment building, but also has a picturesque view of a carriage house on Cranberry Street. Raised planting beds edged with stone wrap around the yard.

There’s no mention of updated mechanicals, and the house does not have central air. No wet rooms are pictured, so updates might be in order.

Listed with Karen Heyman and Alan Heyman of Sotheby’s International Realty, it is priced at $7.75 million. Think it will get ask?

[Listing: 42 Willow Street | Broker: Sotheby’s] GMAP