Victorian Flatbush House Tour on Sunday
Tis the season…The Victorian Flatbush House Tour will take place on Sunday, June 11, from noon to 6:00 pm. Highlights this year include 1505 Albemarle and 115 Buckingham; the latter, a 1900 shingled house with gambrel roof, has been described by Christopher Gray as “spectacular”. To purchase tickets in advance ($16), email admin@fdconline.org. On Sunday,…
Tis the season…The Victorian Flatbush House Tour will take place on Sunday, June 11, from noon to 6:00 pm. Highlights this year include 1505 Albemarle and 115 Buckingham; the latter, a 1900 shingled house with gambrel roof, has been described by Christopher Gray as “spectacular”. To purchase tickets in advance ($16), email admin@fdconline.org. On Sunday, you can buy tickets ($20) at Flatbush Congregational Church at 424 E. 19th Street (Marlborough and Dorchester Road), which is where the tour begins.
House Tour June 11 [Flatbush Development Corp]
Photo from Victorian Flatbush: An Architectural History
The house on the tour was 116 Buckingham, not 115 Buckingham (Gillette), which was the address given here when we were trying to guess what houses were on the tour. An innocent enough mistake, but my, to be able to get into that Gilette House some day.
I was a picture perfect day for the tour, and will have some pictures posted tonight.
Only have photos of outside of houses and some of the back gardens. (no interior photos allowed).
Several of the most impressive homes were ones where the owners had been doing their interior renovation first and had not yet done up the exterior.
A few of the bedrooms, in some houses, did suffer from the “Victorian” look of baby pink, flowered bordered wallpaper and lots of shabby chic furniture/decor. But overall, lots of great rooms.
The highlights of the tour were houses that had fabulous inlay work in the original wood floors, beautiful wood trim. A couple of houses had really cool back gardens and the final stop was a garden with a fountain, pool, a huge lawn with fruit trees and vegetable patch.
Saddly the GILLETTE house was NOT ON THE TOUR as shown here. However it was a great day and many other wonderful houses were in full LATE VICTORIAN, EARLY EDWARDIAN, ARTS and CRAFTS glory
Ack. This site says the tour starts at 12:00, the FDC website says it starts at 11:00, and when I called them, they said it starts at 1:00. LOL.
Thanks for the photo tip…Enjoy and please send photos–we’re out of town!
Oh, and by the way, I am NOT Brenda from Flatbush.
Mary Kay is 100% right about that photograph – the same thing crossed my mind.
Brownstoner, please put a leash on that sick poster who is poisoning this thread. And by the way, CIA is pretty damn safe these days. You’re more at risk getting off the subway at Grand Army Plaza.
That photo is not representative of
The Flatbush area!!!!!!!!
Brenda from flatbush.
Please Brenda get a life, you still live near Coney Island Ave where you can get stabbed with a knife!