Sustainability-Focused Park Slope House Tour Returns in May

Indulge your architectural curiosity while checking out the sustainability efforts of Brooklynites with the return of the annual Park Slope House Tour in May. This year’s Park Slope Civic Council event again focuses on homes with eco-friendly features.

At least six sites will be on view, including a Passive House under construction, a home with a flood mitigation project, and a deep rear garden bringing green to the neighborhood. Period feature lovers will also get a look inside at least one restoration project, with a 19th century brownstone in the mix. The list of participating houses will be revealed to ticket holders shortly before the event on Sunday, May 17. Participants will have from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. to make their way to all of the tour spots.

The annual house tour was launched in 1959 to raise awareness of the neighborhood as a desirable place to live and to showcase its impressive architecture. While house tours once proliferated in the Brooklyn as a way to lure potential homeowners to the borough, the number of tours has dropped in the last decade. In addition to the Park Slope event, the regularly offered tours remaining are the Lefferts Manor Association tour, offered in the spring, and the Brownstoners of Bedford-Stuyvesant annual tour in the fall.

Tickets for the Park Slope tour are $55 per person and $50 for members of the Park Slope Civic Council. Tickets are available online. The tour sold out quickly last year, so getting tickets early is recommended. Proceeds from the event will support a grant program for local arts and cultural organizations.

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