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June 9, 2006

Victorian Flatbush House Tour on Sunday

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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




Posted by Brownstoner at 9:24 AM | Comments (21)
Categories: Brownstones

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Our frames are red hot/Your brownstone's doodly-squat!

Posted by: Brenda from Flatbush at June 9, 2006 10:23 AM

The Flatbush Tompkins Congregational Church is at 424 East 19th Street at Dorchester Road. It is NOT at or near Marlborough Road.

Posted by: Anonynous at June 9, 2006 11:01 AM

A 2 minute video from last year's Victorian house tour is available on google video

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7490577610037334106&q=house+tour

A version is also available on Brownstoner but the audio sounds funny on my computer.

Posted by: Nelson at June 9, 2006 11:29 AM

If anyone knows the full line up please post. I am heavily pregnant and can't do the whole tour. Pre-planning would be helpful.

Posted by: Anonymous at June 9, 2006 11:32 AM

If anyone knows the full line up please post. I am heavily pregnant and can't do the whole tour. Pre-planning would be helpful.

Posted by: Anonymous at June 9, 2006 11:33 AM

115 Buckingham Road is, I think, the Gillette House.

http://home.att.net/~ebasics/prospectparksouth.html

And I believe the brown tudor also pictured on that web site is the Albemarle house.

Posted by: Anonymous at June 9, 2006 4:01 PM

Anon.1:29:

I guess you win the prize for the most vicious post to date--truly vile!

Posted by: Anonymous at June 10, 2006 6:17 PM

Anon at 6:17 - that was pretty sick remark. I've seen plenty of fire-gutted brownstones by the way...

Posted by: Anonymous at June 10, 2006 7:38 PM

Brenda from flatbush.

Please Brenda get a life, you still live near Coney Island Ave where you can get stabbed with a knife!

Posted by: Anon at June 10, 2006 7:42 PM

That photo is not representative of
The Flatbush area!!!!!!!!

Posted by: Mary Kay Gallagher at June 10, 2006 8:36 PM

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.

Posted by: Anonymous at June 11, 2006 9:26 AM

Oh, and by the way, I am NOT Brenda from Flatbush.

Posted by: Anonymous at June 11, 2006 9:27 AM

Thanks for the photo tip...Enjoy and please send photos--we're out of town!

Posted by: Brownstoner at June 11, 2006 9:38 AM

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.

Posted by: Shahn Andersen at June 11, 2006 11:11 AM

Golly, my silly little teasing excursion in quasi-ironic boosterism (obviously a play on the equally absurd rockabilly song, "My Girl is Red Hot/Your Girl Ain't Doodly-Squat") seems to have unleashed some sort of vague nastiness, including what was apparently a "vile" and subsequently deleted post. I will attempt to comport myself in a more dignified manner. [scratching head]

Posted by: Brenda from Flatbush at June 11, 2006 2:29 PM

My inane teasing little bit of Flatbush boosterism (based on the equally idiotic rockabilly song, 'My Girl is Red Hot/Your Girl Ain't Doodly-Squat') seems to have occasioned some sort of bad karma, for which my apologies. I shall attempt to comport myself with more dignity in the future. [scratching head]
Apologies also if this post appears twice...I posted it once and it vanished, have I been locked out for Undignified Mirth in Regard to Brownstones?

Posted by: brenda from flatbush at June 11, 2006 2:37 PM

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

Posted by: RVP at June 12, 2006 9:12 AM

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.

Posted by: Anonymous at June 12, 2006 9:35 AM

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.

Posted by: Anonymous at June 12, 2006 12:10 PM

I've been inside Gillette, years ago the owner let me look around...most amazing thing is the 3d floor, a tiny jewel-box ballroom (!) with a Tudory window-seat in the turret, perfect for Anne Boleyn to get away from Henry VIII between dances. Amazing! (esp for a house with a train running through its back yard...)

Posted by: Brenda from Flatbush at June 12, 2006 12:46 PM

Empty vessels make the greatest (the most) sound... Adlard

Posted by: Adlard at November 21, 2006 12:46 PM

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