Sprawling Prospect Park South House Asks $3.45 Million

"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."

An early 20th-century single-family house at 209 Argyle Road sits on the corner of Beverly Road within Prospect Park South Historic District. Plans were filed in 1905 with Kirby, Petit, and Green credited as architects; the house was built in 1908. The dwelling features period details including wood floors, mantels, built-ins, a side-gable facade, bay windows, a sweeping front porch with a polygonal corner bay, and an attached garage. The double lot includes two driveways and a large garden created after an adjacent house was demolished in 1973. Interior layout includes a large parlor, den, oval living room, kitchen, butler's pantry, two floors of bedrooms and offices, and basement laundry.

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