Closing Bell: East Flatbush House Tour
The second annual house tour for an area in Flatbush called Clarendon Meadows—bounded by New York Avenue on the east, Bedford Avenue on the west, Cortelyou Road on the north, and Foster Avenue on the south—will take place this Sunday from 1 to 5 p.m. The tour is organized by the Clarendon Meadows Association, which…
The second annual house tour for an area in Flatbush called Clarendon Meadows—bounded by New York Avenue on the east, Bedford Avenue on the west, Cortelyou Road on the north, and Foster Avenue on the south—will take place this Sunday from 1 to 5 p.m. The tour is organized by the Clarendon Meadows Association, which resident and broker Marie Campbell has set up, in part, “to protect, highlight, preserve and showcase the various Victorians, limestone and brownstone homes in the neighborhood.” The tour is free, and registration starts at 12:30 at the Eureka Educational Center on the corner of Clarendon Road and East 25th Street.
Clarendon Meadows Association [Facebook] GMAP
Photo from the Clarendon Meadows Association.
The biggest thanks, however, goes to The Brownstoner for giving the Clarendon Meadows house tour the exposure and taking a chance on an, as yet, unknown entity and area. Many thanks!
Thanks for all the comments, compliments and historical background of the area. Our facebok page is still under construction, and will reflect more history surrounding the name of the area.
If anyone is at all able to attend the tour you will be sure to enjoy it. Hopefully we will find a less conflicting date in the future. Being the rookie on the block I just had to pick a date to get the tour off to a start. As someone said it ain’t easy…but it’s worth it!
The association will definately drop you a line Montrose Morris so we can be included on the city wide list.
This is great.
The reason you’ve never heard of Clarendon Meadows is because the area is actually one of the developmental phases of Vandeveer Park – the earliest Victorian development in Flatbush, predating PPS. Actually, come to think of it, Matthews Park (now the western half of BSW) may be slightly earlier.
Vandeveer Park was huge after all four sections were constructed – larger than all the other surviving Victorian Flatbush neighborhoods combined. However, only a handful of the original Vandeveer houses exists, and most are horrifically altered.
Clarendon Meadows?–new to me too. Too bad they didn’t check around for other, conflicting house tours that day.
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The only other house tour I know of this season is Victorian Flatbush, on June 12th. Crown Hts. North, Bedford Stuyvesant, and Prospect Heights are in the Fall. [Oct. 1st, Oct. 15th, and October 16th].
Of course I hope you can make the PLG HT this Sunday 🙂
According to this Times article from 1988, the name was bestowed by Neighborhood Housing Services to the area north of there (from Coretelyou up to Clarkson):
http://www.nytimes.com/1988/10/02/realestate/perspectives-new-condos-in-flatbush-tapping-the-market-in-central-brooklyn.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm
In any event, kudos to the group for organizing this.
Congratulations to them for starting the tours. We’re on our 5th this year, and it ain’t easy. I wish I could go, but I’m also planning on going on the PLG tour.
If you read this, Marie Campbell, or anyone from the organization, drop me a line so we can include you in the list of house tours next year. There’s a borough wide list that goes out and you should be on it. It may also help coordinate and get a date that is relatively conflict free. I’ve driven through, and walked a bit in the neighborhood, and would love to explore more.
Good luck to you this weekend.
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Any other neighborhood’s doing house tours this summer? Not sure I can do this weekend. PLG is probably more interesting to me if I can.
No matter what they call it, it’s nice to see that soemone is featuring this area, although a pretty small slice. A few years ago I spent some time combing Flatbush for some space. I’d never realy been around there. This area and the adjacent areas around Holy Cross Cemetary seemed like that had some great frame houses with porches – somewhat similar to the Ditmas Park area. Alot of things seemed to have fallen on rough times over the years but the potentail is still apparent. I also really liked the RC Church complex btwn Church and Erasmus.