Today on the Forum
Here are some of the topics posted on the Forum today: Can I Enlarge Windows on a Landmarked Victorian? 102 Feet of Oak Baseboard for Sale Is Inflating Square Footage Common Practice? Does Mansion Tax Apply To Mixed-Use Bldg? Has Anyone Ever Used Electrician Super Charged? Need Someone to Sheetrock and Repaint Photo from VICTORIAN…
Here are some of the topics posted on the Forum today:
Can I Enlarge Windows on a Landmarked Victorian?
102 Feet of Oak Baseboard for Sale
Is Inflating Square Footage Common Practice?
Does Mansion Tax Apply To Mixed-Use Bldg?
Has Anyone Ever Used Electrician Super Charged?
Need Someone to Sheetrock and Repaint
Photo from VICTORIAN FLATBUSH: An Architectural History
Absolutely. As did St. Paul’s, which, interestingly, was one of the first streets in Flatbush to experience tear downs of wood frame homes to make way for apt. buildings.
There are still a handful of really wonderful houses in Manhattan Park. I’ve posted pix on my website.
I’m actually making a new year’s resolution to update my website and maybe even turn it into an architectural history blog. I would love to have reps/contributors representing different Brooklyn nabes.
Bob Marvin? You out there? Crown Heights Proud? Anyone else? Especially anyone with good computer design skills! Mine are pretty lacking
Thanks Erin. I do have some postcards of this part of Brooklyn as well as Bed-Stuy. It’s hard to imagine that the Midwood/Manhattan Terrace section of Ocean ever looked like this. Many of the remaining victorian frame homes have been torn down to make way for apartment buildings and of late condo’s. I guess it is not feasible or practicle to landmark everywhere. Although it seems as though Ocean Avenue had some of the grandest houses.
Well observed, Guest at 2:47. It is an old Brooklyn Eagle postcard. Great fun and relatively easy to collect. This is one of my favorites. Hard to believe Ocean Avenue ever looked like this. The wrecking ball started visiting this section of Flatbush as early as the 1920… The scene could be anywhere south of Prospect Park, all the way down to Avenue M – the southern border of Manhattan Terrace.
This picture looks like a post card of one of the Victorian Flatbush blocks. Does anyone know which one? Erin are you out there?