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The folks at this 9th Street brownstone in Park Slope aren’t letting the recession, or the sudden cultural distaste for gilt and glamour, get in the way of their renovation. They’re restoring their bracketed cornice to all its gold leafed glory. Such attention to detail!


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  1. Going a ways back in the thread, actually Inigo you’re wrong, the painted ladies were not painted colorfully for the first time ever in the 60’s. It’s just wrong to think any use of color is never original to the Victorian era. I would not be surprised at all to learn cornices and front doors on brownstones here were painted with colors.

    This from Wikipedia:
    “bout 48,000 houses in the Victorian and Edwardian styles were built in San Francisco between 1849 and 1915 (with the change from Victorian to Edwardian occurring on the death of Queen Victoria in 1901), and many were painted in bright colors. As one newspaper critic noted in 1885, “…red, yellow, chocolate, orange, everything that is loud is in fashion…if the upper stories are not of red or blue… they are painted up into uncouth panels of yellow and brown…”[5] California Architects and Builders News, April 1885.

    It goes on to describe how starting in the 60’s homeowners returned these houses to their bright colors. Which means the painted ladies were being RESTORED to their ORIGINAL colorful exteriors. If people are painting them bland colors again as somebody claimed, it’s actually not original.