{"id":98942,"date":"2026-01-13T17:54:36","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T17:54:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/98942\/"},"modified":"2026-01-13T17:54:36","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T17:54:36","slug":"a-1901-queen-anne-with-a-porte-cochere-in-crown-heights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/98942\/","title":{"rendered":"A 1901 Queen Anne With a Porte Cochere in Crown Heights"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n A 1901 mansion off the southeastern corner of Brower Park.
\n Photo: Brooklyn Blocks Real Estate\n <\/p>\n

In a neighborhood of stately prewar apartments and brownstones, 1094 Park Place manages to stick out. There\u2019s a three-story turret, a front porch the size of some one-bedrooms, and a private driveway (with a porte cochere, no less). Wave-shaped dormer windows overlook the Spanish-tile roof. Inside, there\u2019s parquet for miles, wood paneling, stained glass, beamed ceilings, and a classical frieze of men in togas. Out back, there\u2019s a pergola and a small pond. \u201cThey don\u2019t build them like that anymore,\u201d says broker Joe Brikman, who listed the building last week for the first time in 15 years at $3.995 million and struggled to find comps. \u201cThere are no comparisons.\u201d<\/p>\n

Price: $3.995 million ($385 in monthly taxes)<\/p>\n

Specs: 4 bedrooms, 2.5 bathrooms<\/p>\n

Extras: Driveway; front porch; back deck; backyard with pergola and pond; breakfast room; home office; dressing room; basement with wine cellar<\/p>\n

Ten-minute walking radius: Brower Park, Brooklyn Children\u2019s Museum, Greyz Bistro<\/p>\n

Listed by: Joe Brikman, Brooklyn Blocks Real Estate <\/a><\/p>\n

Built at the twilight of the Gilded Age, No. 1094 was carved from an estate that was once even grander \u2014\u00a0the family seat of George V. Brower<\/a>, a lawyer at the turn of the 20th century who went on to become Parks commissioner for two terms under Alfred Chapin and Robert Van Wyck. Brower used his public job to create a park that \u201chappened to be across the street,\u201d per historian Suzanne Spellen, who dug into<\/a> the building\u2019s history for Brownstoner. The estate was big enough to hold a skating pond and certainly big enough to carve out a lot next door to the main house for his daughter, Genevieve. Plans for what would become No. 1094 were filed in 1901, and the couple hired the architect Henry B. Moore, now best known for another showy Brooklyn home \u2014\u00a0the Gale Mansion<\/a> in Prospect Park South. If the couple wanted to make an impact, that may have had something to do with the groom\u2019s profession: C. M. Phipps ran a factory producing jaunty ladies\u2019 hats<\/a>, \u201csold by the most exclusive milliners of London, Paris, Berlin, Vienna, etc.,\u201d according to marketing copy<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The young couple seems to have followed the trends from what would become Crown Heights; Spellen found they lived here only a few years. After George Brower\u2019s death in 1921, his home was razed to make way for a synagogue next door as a New Wave of wealthy German Jewish \u00e9migr\u00e9s moved into the neighborhood. In 1945, the house was sold to Melvin Mason, a Howard-trained doctor who put his practice on the ground floor. (Many of the neighborhood\u2019s other grand mansions were chopped into smaller units or left derelict, a result of racist redlining that made it almost impossible o get mortgages in Black neighborhoods.) When Mason wasn\u2019t working, he was entertaining distinguished guests. (One, the prime minister of Jamaica, reportedly gave the family the tropical stained-glass scene that hangs over the fireplace in the foyer.)<\/p>\n

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\n The fireplace with stained glass showing palm trees.
\n Photo: Brooklyn Blocks Real Estate\n <\/p>\n

The family sold the house in 2001 to Ann L. Jacobs, who sold<\/a> it eight years later for $960,000. That owner, Sholom D. Nagel, raised a family here and took on a series of renovations, according to Brikman, the Nagels\u2019 broker.\u00a0(The kitchens and bathrooms certainly don\u2019t look 1901.) Brikman says the family has moved out of the borough and tried listing the home last summer as a $13,950 rental. This year, Brikman says, the Nagels changed their minds. But, Brikman adds, \u201cthey\u2019re not happy to get rid of it.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\n A rare private drive sweeps under the porte cochere, where steps lead to the covered porch and the main entrance. The drive leads back into a deep yard.
\n Photo: Brooklyn Blocks Real Estate\n <\/p>\n

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\n The formal entry to the foyer. Left is a window to the sideyard. The open door to the right leads toward the back of the house, past a formal dining room and into a breakfast room and a kitchen off the garden.
\n Photo: Brooklyn Blocks Real Estate\n <\/p>\n

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\n Facing the foyer is an open living area that sits toward the front of the house, occupying the curve of the turret. A frieze above the doorway (left) appears original.
\n Photo: Brooklyn Blocks Real Estate\n <\/p>\n

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\n The formal dining room.
\n Photo: Brooklyn Blocks Real Estate\n <\/p>\n

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\n The kitchen has been renovated. Elements of the images may be virtually staged.
\n Photo: Brooklyn Blocks Real Estate\n <\/p>\n

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\n A 12-by-12-foot breakfast room off the kitchen (left) leads to a backyard deck.
\n Photo: Brooklyn Blocks Real Estate\n <\/p>\n

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\n The deck is 25 feet wide and 11 feet deep and overlooks the rear yard.
\n Photo: Brooklyn Blocks Real Estate\n <\/p>\n

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\n The yard holds a pond (left) and a pergola.
\n Photo: Brooklyn Blocks Real Estate\n <\/p>\n

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\n The main stairs lead to a landing on the second floor that opens onto three bedrooms.
\n Photo: Brooklyn Blocks Real Estate\n <\/p>\n

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\n The largest of three bedrooms on the second floor.
\n Photo: Brooklyn Blocks Real Estate\n <\/p>\n

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\n A bathroom on the second floor.
\n Photo: Brooklyn Blocks Real Estate\n <\/p>\n

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\n The rear bedroom on the second floor has views of the garden.
\n Photo: Brooklyn Blocks Real Estate\n <\/p>\n

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\n The third floor is shown as one immense primary suite with a walk-in closet with a dressing room (not pictured).
\n Photo: Brooklyn Blocks Real Estate\n <\/p>\n

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\n The primary suite on the top floor has an oversize bath.
\n Photo: Brooklyn Blocks Real Estate\n <\/p>\n

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Photo: Brooklyn Blocks Real Estate\n <\/p>\n

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