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Compact Unit in Park Slope Chiclet Mansion With Basketweave Floors, Built-ins Asks $625K

Petite but carefully designed, this one-bedroom has a mantel and other fine 19th century details as well as modern updates and built-ins.

by Cate Corcoran

03/01/2022 3 minute 0

Petite but carefully designed, this one-bedroom has a mantel and other fine 19th century details as well as modern updates and built-ins. It’s located in a bay-windowed space with 12-foot-high ceilings in the rear of the third floor of 115 8th Avenue in Park Slope.

Now an 11-unit co-op, the townhouse was built in 1889 as one half of a mansion, “two residences in one structure,” as the Brooklyn Daily Eagle put it at the time, for the oldest son of the inventor of flavored stick gum. Known as the Chiclet mansion, along with its neighbor at 117 (home to HGTV stars Robert and Cortney Novogratz), it was designed by architect C.P.H. Gilbert and is considered among the finest examples of Romanesque Revival architecture in New York City.

The apartment’s main space combines living, dining and kitchen in a room with exuberant striped basketweave parquet flooring and walnut wood paneling. There is also an original corner mantel, tall windows, a beamed ceiling and built-in bookshelves.

The diminutive space is shown with a sofa, table and chairs and desk. The kitchen has a u-shaped marble counter, antique dish cupboard, dishwasher and under-counter fridge and freezer.

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A door topped by a transom leads to the bedroom, which has a closet and four windows. Three of the latter are set into a round bay that overlooks the building’s rear garden.

The bathroom, two closets and another pair of built-in shelves are off a long hall near the apartment’s front door. The modern bathroom has bead board, subway tile and a tub with shower. Laundry is in the building’s basement.

The one-bedroom has been on and off the market in recent years after last selling in 2014 for $550,000. The maintenance is $731 a month. Listed by Nigel Hall of Compass, the unit is asking $625,000. What are your thoughts?

[Listing: 115 8th Avenue #4 | Broker: Compass] GMAP