"It’s the blue belle of Brooklyn; a former country villa that stands
alone at 271 Ninth Street, between walkup flats and a featureless
one-story Post Office. Passing this dowager beauty, which has stood on the block between Fourth
and Fifth Avenues since the Antebellum era, is like being in a time
machine. Everything about it is a wonderful anachronism: the mansard
roof, the lacy ironwork over the bay windows, the front yard with
rosebushes and lavender. ..."
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