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Prospect Heights Row House
Prospect Heights Row House
Brooklyn, Kings County, NY, United States
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Other Projects by Sherman Architects
Prospect Heights Row House
Brooklyn, Kings County, NY, United States
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Type
STATUS
Built
YEAR
2025
SIZE
1000 sqft - 3000 sqft
Lost Garden
Another brownstone cut off from its garden! This Prospect Heights row house had a rotting rear extension that left room for only narrow openings to the backyard. Hidden from view and difficult to reach, the garden was reduced to a storage yard for the owner’s collection of scrap bluestone.
We demolished the little extension and rebuilt it full-width to allow for wide French doors. The extension not only opens the new dining room to the garden but also adds a new roof terrace off the library. Our new bluestone stair connects the two levels. Finally, we knit together all these outdoor spaces using a limited material palette: black metal cladding, exposed brick, and bluestone paving.
Those piles of scrap bluestone didn’t go to waste either. We cut and stacked them into retaining walls for the raised planting beds in the newly landscaped garden. For the sake of the new gas grill, we used fireproof fiber-cement boards for the lot-line fences. And for extra privacy, we planted a hornbeam hedge along the rear fence.
Prospect Heights LPC District
At the front facade, by contrast, we rebuilt every surface to exceed Landmark’s exacting standards. Previously, the facade stonework had been two-toned, badly cracked, and separating from its masonry structure.
We fixed this by re-anchoring and re-brownstoning the whole in a single color, painstakingly recasting every ornament. The cast iron grill on the stoop is new, as is the lighting and bluestone paving. We also replaced the windows and painted the door to match.
The Art of the Interior
Inside, the glow of hidden LEDs celebrates your arrival at a bamboo-paneled entry. Sliding bamboo doors reveal an upholstered shoe bench.
Beyond this, the new kitchen is sleek and efficient. All the countertops either turn up as backsplashes or turn down as waterfall edges. In the adjacent dining room, a Serge Mouille chandelier is silhouetted against a full wall of steel windows.
The library upstairs has a new wet bar and wine fridge flanking the restored fireplace. On the opposite wall, we integrated central air into the original cabinetry. And at the restored bay window, we inserted a matching door to the new roof terrace.
Our renovation of this Prospect Heights row house serves as a backdrop for our client’s extensive art collection. These play against the carefully restored mahogany details throughout the house.
Cellar Transformation
Previously, the low ceiling of the damp cellar relegated it to mechanical equipment and dirty storage. But our clients’ goal for this floor was an extension of the house’s living spaces: a screening room, a small home gym, a powder room, a laundry room, and clean storage.
Here, we turned structure into style. To avoid underpinning the foundation, we used a bench footing to lower the cellar floor and gain critical ceiling height. We repurposed the bench as literal seating: an upholstered banquette that wraps around the new screening room.
We clad the rear wall in painted bricks, salvaged from the demolition and lit with a wash of concealed downlight. Floor-to-ceiling walnut slats add elegance to a run of utility doors.
PROJECT INFO
Location: Prospect Heights, Brooklyn
Size: 2750 s.f.
Year Completed: 2025
General Contractor: TomChris Contracting
Structural Engineer: Angelos Georgopoulos
Expediter: CODE, LLC
Photographer: Hanna Grankvist
MEP Engineer: D'Antonio Consulting
Another brownstone cut off from its garden! This Prospect Heights row house had a rotting rear extension that left room for only narrow openings to the backyard. Hidden from view and difficult to reach, the garden was reduced to a storage yard for the owner’s collection of scrap bluestone.
We demolished the little extension and rebuilt it full-width to allow for wide French doors. The extension not only opens the new dining room to the garden but also adds a new roof terrace off the library. Our new bluestone stair connects the two levels. Finally, we knit together all these outdoor spaces using a limited material palette: black metal cladding, exposed brick, and bluestone paving.
Those piles of scrap bluestone didn’t go to waste either. We cut and stacked them into retaining walls for the raised planting beds in the newly landscaped garden. For the sake of the new gas grill, we used fireproof fiber-cement boards for the lot-line fences. And for extra privacy, we planted a hornbeam hedge along the rear fence.
Prospect Heights LPC District
At the front facade, by contrast, we rebuilt every surface to exceed Landmark’s exacting standards. Previously, the facade stonework had been two-toned, badly cracked, and separating from its masonry structure.
We fixed this by re-anchoring and re-brownstoning the whole in a single color, painstakingly recasting every ornament. The cast iron grill on the stoop is new, as is the lighting and bluestone paving. We also replaced the windows and painted the door to match.
The Art of the Interior
Inside, the glow of hidden LEDs celebrates your arrival at a bamboo-paneled entry. Sliding bamboo doors reveal an upholstered shoe bench.
Beyond this, the new kitchen is sleek and efficient. All the countertops either turn up as backsplashes or turn down as waterfall edges. In the adjacent dining room, a Serge Mouille chandelier is silhouetted against a full wall of steel windows.
The library upstairs has a new wet bar and wine fridge flanking the restored fireplace. On the opposite wall, we integrated central air into the original cabinetry. And at the restored bay window, we inserted a matching door to the new roof terrace.
Our renovation of this Prospect Heights row house serves as a backdrop for our client’s extensive art collection. These play against the carefully restored mahogany details throughout the house.
Cellar Transformation
Previously, the low ceiling of the damp cellar relegated it to mechanical equipment and dirty storage. But our clients’ goal for this floor was an extension of the house’s living spaces: a screening room, a small home gym, a powder room, a laundry room, and clean storage.
Here, we turned structure into style. To avoid underpinning the foundation, we used a bench footing to lower the cellar floor and gain critical ceiling height. We repurposed the bench as literal seating: an upholstered banquette that wraps around the new screening room.
We clad the rear wall in painted bricks, salvaged from the demolition and lit with a wash of concealed downlight. Floor-to-ceiling walnut slats add elegance to a run of utility doors.
PROJECT INFO
Location: Prospect Heights, Brooklyn
Size: 2750 s.f.
Year Completed: 2025
General Contractor: TomChris Contracting
Structural Engineer: Angelos Georgopoulos
Expediter: CODE, LLC
Photographer: Hanna Grankvist
MEP Engineer: D'Antonio Consulting
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