Flatbush Life reports that Fiske Terrace and Midwood Park, two neighborhoods with the larger area known as Victorian Flatbush, are likely to receive landmark status in the upcoming months. On September 19, LPC plans to officially set a date for a public hearing on the matter. The two nabes encompass about 250 houses, many of which were built between 1904 and 1920 by the architects Theodore Ackerson and John Corbin. “The predominantly Colonial Revival and Shingle Style houses are largely intact, asymmetrically massed and feature spacious porches, elaborate projecting towers, oriels and bays, Palladian windows and deep eaves,” reads a preliminary LPC brief. “The neighborhood also has an unusual street plan that includes landscaped malls and short streets that dead-end at the BMT subway cut.” Seems like a no-brainer to us!
Landmark Status for Stately Nabe? [Flatbush Life]