House Tourers, (Re)Start Your Engines: Crown Heights Next
The late spring/early summer house tour schedule can get pretty intense. But by now you’ve had plenty of time to rest up for what’s coming down the pipe the next two weekends. On Saturday, October 6, the Crown Heights North Association is hosting its First Annual Crown Heights North House & Garden Tour. Celebrating the…
The late spring/early summer house tour schedule can get pretty intense. But by now you’ve had plenty of time to rest up for what’s coming down the pipe the next two weekends. On Saturday, October 6, the Crown Heights North Association is hosting its First Annual Crown Heights North House & Garden Tour. Celebrating the area’s recent designation as a Historic District, the tour will feature ten houses, two churches and one community garden. There’s a kick-off event (at which public officials are expected) from 10:30 to 12:00 at St. Gregory’s at 991 St. Johns Place; this is also where you pick up tix and start your tour. We’ve seen some of the descriptions of the houses on the tour and it sounds sweet. Here’s a taste: “the intact fretwork screens over the stained glass transom windows, the intricate detail in all of the door frames, fireplaces and columns, and the stairwell bench flanked by columns, framed with more intricate fretwork carving, all on perfect parquet floors. There’s also a house that was renovated using almost exclusively salvaged materials. Tickets are $25; the tour ends at 5 p.m. Also, we’ll have more on it next week, but, for planning purposes, the Prospect Heights House Tour takes place on Sunday, October 14.
House Tour Info & Tickets [CHN]
12:55pm, why even share that thought? What’s the point? Not every brain fart you have is worth sharing with others. Especially when it hurts the feelings of an entire community of people who put a lot of effort into this tour. Not to mention the people who willingly opened the doors of their homes for the ungrateful public to trample through. Good luck to everyone involved, hope this is successful.
– signed, not a Crown Heights resident but someone who hates the nastiness here.
I love fall house tours.
Nice weather, mums on the stoops, fall colors.
3 great tours! House tour heaven!
You forgot Bed-Stuy on Oct. 20.
Thanks Mr B. The listings keep pushing it further into C Heights. The usual MO.
All of the Brooklyn house tours are great. There are some fantastic homes in every part of Brooklyn. Just because you may favour one neighbourhood over another, it in no way means that the other does not have nice homes as well. I for one am always up for a bit of RE porn wherever it may be. See you at the tour.
Washington Avenue. THink we debated this one a while ago.
What’s considered the border between Prospect Heights and Crown Heights these days?
Prospect Heights Tour should be great this year. Can’t wait!
I wonder if they will include the mansion on New York ave..At Prospect I think. It is simply awesome!