63 Maple Street #0

Who needs a country house when you can have live in a fully-detached and meticulously restored historic brick mansion with your own garage, driveway, yard, and windows on four sides, all just moments from Prospect Park on the prettiest block in Prospect Lefferts Gardens?!Freestanding and 40 wide, this home is a rare gem, suitable for entertaining on a grand scale, multi-generational living, and live/work situations. Enter the main floor to a formal entranceway the likes of which are never seen in traditional brownstones. Head right to an oversized living room with two walls of historic arched windows, or head left to a formal dining room, a huge kitchen, a separate breakfast nook, a powder room, and a walk-in and windowed pantry. This glamorous floor spills out to a pastoral backyard and your very own garage with electric door opener. Upstairs you will find four oversized bedrooms, including a divine primary suite complete with a Carrara marble and subway tile 5-fixture master bathroom and secondary bathroom. An unexpectedly bright windowed English-basement comes complete with an elegant wet bar with brass fixtures, windowed home offices, and additional wine storage. The cherry on top is a unique dormered and windowed attic room that would make a fantastic home office or playroom.An architectural mixture of Neo-Georgian and Spanish Mission styles, enjoy the embellishments of a real turn-of-the century mansion including a sweeping staircase, high ceilings, original mantles and moldings, a dramatic front porch, restored stained glass in almost every room, herringbone floors and show-stopping windows throughout. Modern upgrades include central heating and cooling, a chefs kitchen complete with custom cabinetry, substantial storage, a dining island, and white Caesarstone countertops. Every bathroom has been meticulously restored with an elegant combination of marble and subway tile juxtaposed with perfect reproductions of historic fixtures.Drive up, park your car, and enjoy a life of convenience and comfort that you never dreamed possible in Brooklyn. And if you would prefer to walk, it is an easy jaunt to the B,Q and S trains at Prospect Park and the 2/5 at Sterling. Great grocery stores, health clubs, exciting restaurants and cafes, the Botanical Gardens, the Brooklyn Museum, and the Prospect Park Zoo all within your everyday reach.