25 Chester Court

The house belongs to a row of Tudor Revival homes that architect and builder Peter J. Collins laid out in 1911 along a single cul-de-sac off Flatbush Avenue, an enclave he modeled on the timber-framed black-and-white houses he had seen in Chester, England. Tudor Revival was common enough for freestanding Brooklyn houses by then, but rarely applied to row houses, which makes the block among the earliest of its kind in the borough. An original brick wall still closes off the far end of the court, and the Landmarks Preservation Commission designated the whole assemblage a historic district in 2014.

Inside, the period work survives: a paneled dining room under a coffered ceiling, plaster moldings, and a wood-burning fireplace. There is a particular quiet to a dead-end block where every house Collins built is still standing.