Dear Brownstoners,<\/p>\n
This is our first posting in this forum, we thought we might get a good idea on how to solve our problem with the help of the collective experience in this group. We have a brownstone in a landmarked district that has a violation related to the front stoop. Basically the original balusters disappeared decades ago, and we need to replace them with balusters that match those of the house next door. (pictures attached). There are no similar balusters commercially available and no other such balusters in any home we have ever seen except the one next door. So far the cast iron and aluminum estimates we have gotten have been in the 15K range and involve temporarily removing two balusters from our neighbors’ stoop in order to make the casts. We are looking to see what other materials and methods may be more economical\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 we have been thinking fiberglass but have not gotten responses from any of the fiberglass places we have emailed. Any recommendations on good, reliable, fiberglass companies or thoughts about other materials, or any other solution to our problem? Can Landmarks just make you pay any amount to fix a violation or will they work with you to do something in a reasonable price range (e.g. accept a substitution with a commercially available baluster.) Thanks!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Dear Brownstoners, This is our first posting in this forum, we thought we might get a good idea on how to solve our problem with the help of the collective experience in this group. We have a brownstone in a landmarked district that has a violation related to the front stoop. Basically the original balusters…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":154458,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"schneps_byline":"","schneps_post_style":"","schneps_post_source":"","schneps_syndicated_read_more":"","schneps_post_source_sitename":"","schneps_syndicated_thumb_html":"","schneps_syndicated_thumb_src":"","schneps_post_source_shortname":"","schneps_post_source_url":"","schneps_post_source_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[120],"tags":[],"districts":[],"class_list":["post-55186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-landmarks"],"acf":[],"parsely":{"version":"1.1.0","canonical_url":"https:\/\/brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/2011\/04\/landmark-balust\/","smart_links":{"inbound":0,"outbound":0},"traffic_boost_suggestions_count":0,"meta":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Landmark Balusters","url":"http:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/2011\/04\/landmark-balust\/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"http:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/2011\/04\/landmark-balust\/"},"thumbnailUrl":"","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":""},"articleSection":"Landmarks","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"bridgesandpowerlines"}],"creator":["bridgesandpowerlines"],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Forum Archive","logo":""},"keywords":[],"dateCreated":"2011-04-13T13:45:35Z","datePublished":"2011-04-13T13:45:35Z","dateModified":"2011-04-13T13:56:46Z"},"rendered":"