92 Garfield Place

Garfield Place has one of Center Slope?s most charming architectural features: a row of five intricately carved facades, all built c.1892 by Theodore Cooper (likely a descendent of the original farmer/landowner of Garfield Place and 1st Street). The owners of No. 92 have been wonderful stewards to this four-story, three-family beauty, filled with a great amount of original detail; the improvements they?ve made have been sympathetic to the era, sophisticated in design, and meticulously executed. Currently used as a lower duplex with two excellent rentals above, the house features a south-facing garden with fig trees, camellias, climbing hydrangea, patio, and a richly planted border. The garden floor opens into an extra-large living room and leads to a spectacular rear-windowed kitchen any chef would be proud to use. Impeccably thought-through, the plan includes three walls of glass and painted wood custom cabinetry, granite countertops, a double wall-oven with separate cook-top, an extra-large island with storage and breakfast bar, artisan tile, and work space galore. A luxurious full bath off the kitchen has a step-in shower, floor-to-ceiling built-ins to house linens and toiletries, basket-weave marble floor tile, and classic subway tile for the walls. New oak herringbone flooring runs throughout, save for the very cool 1930s-style patterned tiling in the kitchen. The parlor floor has spacious and sunny front and rear bedrooms (the latter with a convenient petite powder room en suite) connected by a center library with an entire wall of custom oak cabinetry, desk, and bookshelves. Three different flooring patterns are a wonderful vestige of late 19th century craftsmanship -- and whimsy. Upstairs are two dreamy two-bedroom rental apartments that deliver top-of-the-market income. Looking for a one-family home? Center walls come out, a couple of kitchens removed, and you now have six bedrooms. The basement is as clean as the rest of the house with a newly cemented floor, bright lighting, upgraded mechanicals, and whitewashed walls. Original details were preserved on every floor: mantels, a pier mirror, ornamental plasterwork, carved newel posts and balusters, wainscoting, and more. What this house promises from the outside, it delivers when you step through the door.