Park Slope Open House Tour
PARK SLOPE, BROOKLYN, MAY 18 From noon to 5 p.m., guests can tour nine houses, the Montauk Club and the Brooklyn Conservatory of Music, which is in an 1881 mansion. Houses include an 1889 Romanesque Revival home with carved woodwork, stained glass and original tapestry wall fabric; an 1867 row house; and an 1881 Neo-Greco…
PARK SLOPE, BROOKLYN, MAY 18 From noon to 5 p.m., guests can tour nine houses, the Montauk Club and the Brooklyn Conservatory of Music, which is in an 1881 mansion. Houses include an 1889 Romanesque Revival home with carved woodwork, stained glass and original tapestry wall fabric; an 1867 row house; and an 1881 Neo-Greco house decorated with the owners’ collections of Asian artifacts and textiles, as well as a collection of neckties from the 1920s to the 1950s. No children under 10. Tickets, $25, at the Berkeley Carroll School, 181 Lincoln Place (between Seventh and Eighth Avenues). Advance tickets, $20. Information: (718) 832-8227 and parkslopeciviccouncil.org.
The Prospect Lefferts Gardens House Tour (not just Lefferts Manor) will be held on Sunday, June 1, noon to 5 p.m.
When is the Lefferts manor house tour?
Or actually even with me there I wouldn’t do it, let hundreds of children run around my house. It would be even more nerve wracking to be there to see it.
Don’t get down on the groups that operate the house tours, about the no-children rules. It’s not them, it’s the homeowners. You tour attendees are the ones who always want the super fancy houses for tours, and complain when a house is too modest and thus comfortable for children! I’ve read those comments following tours here.
It’s impossible to get homeowners of the biggest best houses to agree to put their house on tour, without the rule about no young children.
I would never agree to letting hundreds of toddlers run through my house without me there, would you?
(*Snort*) Last week’s Brooklyn Heights house tour mandated no children under 13.
Last year was my first time at the PS house tour and I was surprised by how UNcrowded it was, especially compared to BH. With nine houses plus the Montauk Club and the conservatory, and five hours to see everything, people should be spread out enough that there won’t be the insane lines inside and outside like in BH.
“no children under 10”? in park slope? *head explodes*
I’m shocked this was not highlighted on the main page.
My thoughts exactly so I thought I’d just post this info from the NYTimes and not make an issue. It’s been such a great tour in past year’s…
why wasn’t this featured on brownstoner as an actual article today or this week?
you’d think it would be…