House of the Day Prospect Park South

Prospect Park South House With Oval Dining Room, Porch Asks $3.45 Million

The double-lot property includes a large garden, two driveways, and an attached garage.

standalone house with curved wrap around porch

Photo via Douglas Elliman

by Susan De Vries

01/12/2026 0

For those looking for room to spread out, this early 20th century house in Prospect Park South offers a generous amount of space inside and out. On the interior are period details like wood floors, mantels, and built-ins, while outside there is a sweeping expanse of a front porch, a double lot providing a large garden, two driveways, and an attached garage.

At 209 Argyle Road on the corner of Beverly Road, the house sits within the Prospect Park South Historic District. Plans for the single-family dwelling were filed in 1905 with Kirby, Petit, and Green credited as the architect behind the design. The house has a side gable facade with bay windows facing Beverly Road while the Argyle Road facade has the front porch with a polygonal bay at the corner. At the time of designation, the report noted the original decorative columns of the porch, seen in the circa 1940 tax photo, had been replaced with “unattractive brick piers.” Those plain piers were still visible in a 2014 Google Street View, but by 2016 the porch had been restored.

Original owners Wallace G. and Eileen Brooke had sold the house by the time it was featured in a 1940 Brooklyn Eagle article that proclaimed “Flatbush people have a knack of making their houses homes.” Owners C. Bertram and Eileen Plante, who bought the house in the late 1920s, were photographed in front of the parlor fireplace along with their four children.

The house didn’t always have such a large garden. In 1973, a permit shows, the neighboring house at 203 Argyle was demolished. The designation report notes the house, built in 1908, was destroyed by a fire. City records show the owner of No. 209 bought the empty lot.

The main level of the dwelling is spacious with a large parlor, a smaller den, an oval living room, kitchen, and butler’s pantry. Upstairs are two floors of bedroom and office space. Laundry is in the basement.

Details in the large parlor, which has two exposures, include a beamed ceiling, wainscoting, and a column-framed doorway to the main hall. The mantel and built-in bookcases can be glimpsed in the 1940 article. The listing notes that the fireplace is wood burning. There’s a small sunroom off the room that connects it with the dining room.

The oval dining room has a wall of windows, a mantel, and ceiling plasterwork that echoes the shape of the room.

At the rear of the main level, the kitchen has a view out to the garden, a tile floor, tin ceiling, and wood cabinets. Appliances include a dishwasher. There’s a glimpse of the butler’s pantry, which seems to have some of its original cabinetry. The pantry has access to a door leading to the rear deck as well as to a secondary staircase. Census records in 1910 and 1930 show both the Brooke and Plante families had a live-in servant.

On the second floor are four bedrooms. One of the four has an en suite bath while another has access to a sleeping porch used as a home office. Two of the bedrooms have mantels and while all likely have wood floors, one is shown with carpeting.

The top floor has two bedrooms, a bonus room, a wet bar, and another full bath. There are a total of 3.5 baths in the house.

In addition to the porch, there is a rear deck. The large yard has lawn space and is landscaped with perennials, shrubs, trees, and a small pond.

The house hasn’t changed hands in decades so presumably some mechanical upgrades might be needed.

Brownstoner featured the house as an Open House Pick in September when it was priced at $3.8 million. A price drop in October brought the ask down to $3.45 million.

It is listed with Erika Sackin and Jan Rosenberg of Douglas Elliman. What do you think?

[Listing: 209 Argyle Road | Broker: Douglas Elliman] GMAP