Prospect Park South

This unusual home on Buckingam Road features a slate roof, custom tilework, a decorative forged flower gracing the chimney, and a magnificent pair of carved peacocks flanking the entrance.

Neo-French Renaissance design, built in 1908 by A. Harmon, an architect whose work includes the Empire State Building. Slate roof, second story plaster fleur-de-lis motif.

This large, pre-war apartment building was constructed on the site of what was one of the largest homes in Prospect Park South, trhe F.A.M. Burrell residence. When later owners could no longer afford to maintain the vast property, they sold the house to developers who tore it down and erected this not unattractive pre-war apartment building.

Built in 1905, This house features low horizontal massing reminiscent of the Chicago School of Architecture, Jacobean details, caryatid posts, decorative plaques and leaded windows, and Roman Brick. The Albemarle Terrace facade is clearly visible in the above turn-of-the-twentieth-century postcard

This famous house was pictured on postcards shortly after it was constructed. Built in 1903 by John J. Petit, assisted by three Japanese consultants, the design is a Victorian interpretation of a Japanese temple. Strange Kolle (1871-1929), a German medical doctor and inventor of the x-ray, was the original owner.

This imposing brick home in Prospect Park South, with distinctive turret providing views of Flatbush mall, was built several years after its neighbor, the Japanese house, as this 1903 image of the Brighton Railroad Line (prior to the depression of the tracks in 1907) indicates. The house sits on the triangular plot between the tracks and the Japanese house, facing out towards Albemarle Road and the Flatbush Malls.

One of the grandest and best preserved houses in all of Prospect Park South - echoing pillasters, quoins, fanlighted doorway, crosseted windows and four-columned Corinithian portico, greenhouse, copper gutters...

This wooded lot at the end of Albermarle Road was the former site of the "Ex-Lax" mansion, purchased by Isarael Matz, the founder of the Ex-Lax company in 1920. The house was one of the grandestt in all of Prospect Park south. The house was left to the Matz daughters after their fathers death, but they had no interest in living in the home. It was abandoned, inhabited by vagrants and finally burned down in 1958. In 1980 the lot was purchased by the owners or an adjacent home on Marlborough Road. It is now a glorious private garden.

One of the grandest houses in all of Prospect Park South - echoing pillasters, quoins, fanlighted doorway, crosseted windows and four-columned Corinithian portico, greenhouse, copper gutters... the works.

This house, originally the residence of Jesse C. Woodhull, despite the unfortunate siding, retains many graceful period elements. An early 20th century photograph of this home shows that aside from the siding (it was originally white shingle) there have been no other alterations to the impressive exterior.

This Neo-Spanish Renaissance brick house, built in 1916 for the Fruit of the Loom family by Chrysler Building architects William van Allen and H. Craig Severance, designer of Manhattan's 40 Wall Street Tower - has a tiled roof and bowling alley in the basement.

This otherwise magnificent home was recently encased in aluminum siding. One wonders how and why Landmarks permitted such a travesty. The turret now looks strikingly like a rocket ship about to take flight.

Despite some alterations to the exterior, this transitional Victorian/arts and crafts style home retains much of its original charm.

The house was built in the style of an Italian Renaissance palazzo for a homesick countess. Like a number of other houses features on this website, not all Victorian Flatbush homes were of woodframe construction.

This lovely garden was cultivated on a lot of a now destroyed house on Rugby road by the owners of the adjacent home on Argyle.

This charming home - diminutive by Prospect Park South standards - was built on land sold off by the large blue Victorian on the corner of Rugby Road and Beverly Road shortly after the Depression.

This exterior of this grand home has been recently restored. It originally had a porch which was removed by a previous owner, giving the house the appearance of a New England church, sans the steeple. A freestanding cantilevered staircase with third story oculus dominates the interior.

The modern apartment building to the left of the Gillette House was originally the Henry Rowley Residence, which boasted a curved, glass enclosed front porch.