June 12, 2007

Scenes from the Crown Heights Walking Tour

About 100 people or so joined in on the walking tour of Crown Heights North on Sunday, starting off at St. Gregory's Church and ending at the corner of Bedford and Dean. In between, tour guides from the Crown Heights North Association provided tour-goers with architectural and social history about the neighborhood. The afternoon ended with a tea at the Bergen Street Community Garden. Did any readers attend? What was the most interesting thing you learned on the tour?
Photos courtesy of The Crownheightser

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Categories: Crown Heights, House Tours

June 11, 2007

2007 Victorian Flatbush Tour: The Day After

From the looks of the massive photoset that local blogger Flatbush Gardener uploaded to Flickr last night, this year's house tour of Victorian Flatbush was a winner, a sentiment echoed in his blog post on the day. "This was the third year in a row I've gone on the house tour [and] this year was actually one of the best overall," he writes. "There was variety in the houses shown, largely because nearly every neighborhood of Victorian Flatbush was represented on the tour." Were other readers also impressed? What were the highlights of the tour?
2007 Victorian Flatbush House Tour [Flatbush Gardener]
2007 Victorian Flatbush House Tour [Flickr]

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Categories: House Tours, Victorian Flatbush

June 6, 2007

2007 Prospect Lefferts Gardens House Tour Recap

Checking out the two slide shows from Planet PLG and frequent Brownstoner contributor Bob Marvin made us extra bummed that we were not able to make it this year. While it looks like the tour had its usual staple of old-school goodness, we think the photos of the modern interior renovation look amazing. Was that the highlight for most people?
Planet PLG House Tour Slide Show [Flickr]
Bob Marvin's PLG House Tour Slide Show [Brooklyn Camera Club]

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Categories: House Tours, Prospect Lefferts Gardens

June 1, 2007

This Weekend: Houses in PLG, Gardens in FG, CH, PH

The 37th Annual Prospect Lefferts Gardens House and Garden Tour goes down on Sunday from 12 to 5 and, as usual, this is looking like a can't-miss event. Among the many turn-of-the-century brownstone and limestone houses on the tour, we think the former rooming house that has undergone a DIY period restoration by its owners sounds particularly fascinating. At the other end of the spectrum, a 1906 home whose interior was destroyed by a fire in the 1970s provides an example of a more modern take on the townhouse. To buy tix in advance follow the link below or stop in at K-Dog & Dunebuggy or Easy Access Real Estate.

Sunday is also the day for the Brownstone Brooklyn Garden District Garden Walk through Fort Greene, Clinton Hill and Prospect Heights. There are 17 (!) gardens on the tour this year. Highlights include a pair of storied gardens that fall in the Atlantic Yards footprint and may not be around much longer as well as a triple-lot garden with cascades and ponds. Tickets are $15 in advance at Tillie's and the Forest Floor and are $20 on Sunday at Tillie's, the Forest Floor and the BAM Triangle Garden. The tour runs from 11-5 and shuttle buses will be running.
37th Annual House & Garden Tour [LeffertsManor.org]
Brownstone Brooklyn Garden District Garden Walk [phndc.org]

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Categories: Brooklyn, House Tours, Prospect Lefferts Gardens