This Weekend: Houses in PLG, Gardens in FG, CH, PH
The 37th Annual Prospect Lefferts Gardens House and Garden Tour goes down on Sunday from 12 to 5 and, as usual, this is looking like a can’t-miss event. Among the many turn-of-the-century brownstone and limestone houses on the tour, we think the former rooming house that has undergone a DIY period restoration by its owners…
The 37th Annual Prospect Lefferts Gardens House and Garden Tour goes down on Sunday from 12 to 5 and, as usual, this is looking like a can’t-miss event. Among the many turn-of-the-century brownstone and limestone houses on the tour, we think the former rooming house that has undergone a DIY period restoration by its owners sounds particularly fascinating. At the other end of the spectrum, a 1906 home whose interior was destroyed by a fire in the 1970s provides an example of a more modern take on the townhouse. To buy tix in advance follow the link below or stop in at K-Dog & Dunebuggy or Easy Access Real Estate.
Sunday is also the day for the Brownstone Brooklyn Garden District Garden Walk through Fort Greene, Clinton Hill and Prospect Heights. There are 17 (!) gardens on the tour this year. Highlights include a pair of storied gardens that fall in the Atlantic Yards footprint and may not be around much longer as well as a triple-lot garden with cascades and ponds. Tickets are $15 in advance at Tillie’s and the Forest Floor and are $20 on Sunday at Tillie’s, the Forest Floor and the BAM Triangle Garden. The tour runs from 11-5 and shuttle buses will be running.
37th Annual House & Garden Tour [LeffertsManor.org]
Brownstone Brooklyn Garden District Garden Walk [phndc.org]
I love the house tours. I get design/decorating ideas and I “size up the competition.” It was helpful prior to a kitchen remodel to see what similar homes in my area were doing. I usually volunteer for the Victorian Flatbush Tour because it’s my neighborhood. It’s a lot of work before, during and after the tour to get it all together. I volunteer in the AM and tour the homes in the PM. If you enjoy these tours consider volunteering or putting your home on your next neighborhood tour. You have to have a thick skin though. Although the vast majority of the guests are polite and save comments, especially the bad comments until they exit your home, you do get a few visitors who are not well versed in house tour etiquette.
I feel great about the house tour now. Gotta love the ‘image’ we’re projecting here…
My house is on the tour and I’m very proud of both the house and my lovely neighborhood. I’ve put a lot of work into preparing for the tour, and I look forward to greeting all 800 anticipated guests!
10:38, you can find more information about the Victorian Flatbush house tour on the Flatbush Development Corporation’s website:
http://www.fdconline.org/housetour.html
I’ve been a house tour junky for upwards of twenty years now and believe me, I won’t miss this one….
Brown Harris Stevens in Park Slope is also selling tickets to the Prospect Lefferts Gardens and House tour. Located at the corner of 100 7th Avenue at Union Street.
From the Garden Walk event page:
“Garden Walk ticket sales support the Annual Fall Bulb Give-Away for planting flowering bulbs in public spaces throughout the Garden District.”
Does anyone have a heads up on what houses will be featured on the Victorian Flatbush House Tour a week from Sunday?
“9:48 back again”
You’re welcome. FWIW, this is, I think, the 10th Garden tour and I have no doubt that the money they raise is going for a good cause. Of course,I’d rather that you go on OUR tour, OR do BOTH 🙂
thanks bob. with a sponsor name, i found the following on-line, “Under the 501C3 of the Fort Greene Association, the Brownstone Brooklyn Garden District is a coalition of three neighborhoods: Fort Greene, Clinton Hill and Prospect Heights with common goals of improving quality of life through greening of the urban environment.” still doesn’t quite answer the question, but it’s a start.