Historic homes are a great way to feel connected to the past and can even serve as inspiration for future owners, but a house’s pedigree is not generally as inspiring as this Brooklyn Heights co-op’s.

The home was recently listed by documentary filmmaker Errol Morris, famous for helping to save Randall Dale Adams from death row with the documentary The Thin Blue Line, and his wife Julie Sheehan, the Whiting Award-winning poet and director of the MFA in creative writing at Stony Brook Southampton. Among Morris’s achievements are a Guggenheim “genius” grant and the 2003 Oscar for best documentary feature for The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara.

The couple has listed the cozy brownstone duplex for $1.95 million, about what they paid for it two years ago.

And if theirs is not enough of a creative pedigree for you, how about a Nobel? The brownstone was also once home to Joseph Brodsky, who won the most prestigious literary prize for a living author in 1987, eventually becoming the U.S. Poet Laureate in 1991, five years before his death.

The 25-foot wide co-op, built in 1855, sits just a block from the East River promenade, with stunning views of lower Manhattan. The parlor features 16-foot ceilings, a fireplace that still has its original mantle, and floor to ceiling windows with stained-glass transoms.

Two of the three bedrooms overlook the home’s garden, with the master suite featuring a stair to the private yard. There are also two bathrooms, and a mezzanine with a library. Alas, the books are not included in the sale.