Across from Prospect Park, this two-bedroom co-op is filled with rich woodwork intact from the building’s days as a luxe single-family mansion. On the garden and parlor floors of 118 Prospect Park West, the duplex comes with a not-insignificant price tag along with off-street parking and garden access.

In the Park Slope Historic District, the grand brownstone was begun in 1899, one of a wave of fashionable dwellings transforming the avenue at the turn of the century. Architect William Ryan designed a trio of houses, dubbed “neo-Italian Renaissance” in the designation report, for developer Charles Hart. No. 118 benefits from a corner location, perhaps one of the reasons Charles and Delia Hart chose it as the residence for their own family. George Washington, the coffee maker not the president, made it home for a few years and, beginning in the 1950s, it served as the Queen of Peace Residence for Business Women. The building turned co-op after being sold by the Sisters of Reparation in 1979 and has four apartments.

The duplex has two bedrooms, a full bath, laundry and a home office on the garden level and main living spaces on the parlor floor. The front living room and rear dining room are filled with the aforementioned woodwork. The living room has a mantel and garland-ornamented door and window moldings while the dining room has wainscoting, stained glass windows, a built-in china cabinet and another mantel. Wood floors with inlaid borders stretch through both rooms.

The windowed kitchen has the interior shutters found in the other rooms but otherwise has been given a modern makeover with a graphic tile floor, slab-front white cabinets and colorful figurative wallpaper. A powder room is located off the stairs leading to the lower level.

While garden-level bedrooms may not be for every buyer, the one shown has wood floors and closet space and the floor plan shows two more large closets in the hallway. A mudroom leads to the parking pad behind the house. A fence separates it from the small garden at the rear, with a paved dining area and a patch of grass. The listing notes that the garden was renovated in 2015 and is owned by the co-op, but “currently” utilized exclusively by the owner of this unit.

Maintenance for this unit is $1,850 a month. It is listed with Michael Finnigan of Corcoran at $1.895 million. Worth it?

[Listing: 118 Prospect Park West #1 | Broker: Corcoran] GMAP

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interior of 118 prospect park west unit 1

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The building in 2021. Photo by Nicholas Strini for PropertyShark

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