Prominent Promenade brownstone, 3 Pierrepont Place, is up for sale for a record $40 million asking price

February 4, 2015 By Lore Croghan Brooklyn Daily Eagle

Our House Is A Very, Very Fine House (Thank you Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young, for that lyric). Here is 3 Pierrepont Place, which is for sale — for $40 million. Eagle photo by Lore Croghan

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Forty million — it’s a big number.

But this is a big house we’re talking about — 50 rooms big —with a big sense of history and a big view out the back windows.

The house in question is Brooklyn Heights’ own 3 Pierrepont Place, aka the Low Mansion.

The Wall Street Journal rocked the real estate world Wednesday by breaking the story that long-time owner Jeff Keil is putting the property, which is in a coveted location on an entrance to the Promenade, up for sale for a $40 million asking price.

That’s a record high listing price for Brooklyn homes.

Keil told the Journal that the stunning brownstone in the Brooklyn Heights Historic District is split into eight apartments — but the tenants are on short-term leases and the property can be delivered vacant to the purchaser.

According to Clay Lancaster’s ground-breaking survey of the neighborhood’s historic homes, “Old Brooklyn Heights: New York’s First Suburb,” 3 Pierrepont Place is part of a “four-storied duplex of ample proportions on high basement” with Renaissance Revival details — and a conservatory.

It was built in 1856-1857 by architect Richard Upjohn. Abiel Abbott Low, a tea merchant, lived there, Lancaster notes.

As the Journal noted, Low’s son, Seth, was the mayor of Brooklyn and later the mayor of New York City.

As for those views, the back windows overlook the Promenade, with jaw-dropping vistas of Lower Manhattan skyscrapers including the new World Trade Center.