Crown Heights Duplex With Pier Mirror, Mantels, Deck, Garden Asks $6,000 a Month

Filled with rich woodwork, this Crown Heights rental has some modern upgrades, plenty of bedroom space and a large rear garden escape. It takes up the parlor and top floors of 905 Lincoln Place, a bow-fronted brownstone in the Crown Heights North II Historic District.

The Renaissance Revival-style row house is part of a development of 50 two-family houses on the block built by Charles G. Reynolds and designed by Axel Hedman. Reynolds advertised the newly finished block in the fall of 1907 as having “the handsomest houses in Brooklyn” with electric lighting, hardwoods, steam heat and rear extensions.

Much of the hardwood detail Reynolds boasted of still survives on the interior of No. 905. There are wood floors and original window and door trim throughout. The entry also boasts a carved newel post, wainscoting, pier mirror and wood floors with inlaid border.

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The parlor floor has a living room, dining room and kitchen in separate rooms that open to each other with pocket doors. There’s stained glass in the parlor’s bay window, along with a wood mantel with Ionic columns and dentil trim.

The renovated kitchen has white Shaker-style cabinets, stone counters and an island large enough to accommodate seating. A door leads out to a deck with steps down to the garden.

Also on this floor are a full bath and two bedrooms. The larger of those bedrooms is located in the bayed extension Reynolds boasted of and, with a view to the rear garden, seems like it would make an ideal home office if the extra bedroom space weren’t needed.

There are four more bedrooms upstairs, two of them of decent size and located in the front and rear bays. The front bedroom has another Ionic-columned wood mantel. There are several skylights on the top floor, including one in the windowless center bedroom.

The full bath on this level includes a soaking tub and walk-in shower with graphic brown and cream tile. The laundry is tucked inside a large walk-in closet off the hallway.

The listing doesn’t specify if the rear garden is shared with the other rental unit, but it is paved, fenced in, and has plenty of room for a table for some outdoor dining. If you need some gardening inspiration, last year a neighboring Lincoln Place block won the Brooklyn Botanic Garden’s Greenest Block in Brooklyn competition.

Listed by Jim Winters of Compass, it’s asking $6,000 a month, which works out $1,000 per bedroom. Worth it?

[Listing: 905 Lincoln Place, Unit 1 | Broker: Compass] GMAP

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