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]
The Crown Heights tour was really just ok…a reflection of the people who run it one suspects.
THe best part are the homeowners that who open their homes to strangers and were so warm and welcoming.
But really other than Dean street and Hampton place, and possibly Prospect place it’s a pass…not as interesting as the other Bklyn tours.
Bob, we thought of that, and didn’t do it for a couple of reasons, but we regret it now. Now that people have started to buy online, it’s too late to change it now, but next year we will definitely have a lower pre-tour price.
Hey, first time, you learn all kinds of stuff. As we go along, we’ll be better!
Thanks for buying, and see you there.
(We’ve met whilst under a different nom de plume.)
Just got back from buying my advance tickets for the Prospect Heights HT at Tom’s Restaurant. I also bought advance tickets online for the Crown Heights North tour.
A bit of gratuitous advice for the organizers of the CHN tour–people sort of expect discounts for buying advance tickets (something not offered on your tour0. The usual $5 off may not be THAT much but on our (PLG) tour and, I suspect others, a lot of advance tickets–sometimes more than half of the total–get sold. I hope I’m wrong, but I wouldn’t be surprised if your advance ticket sales are lagging. I’m sure you’ll do just fine on tour day,but it’s something to consider for future tours.
[And, in answer to the anticipated question–YES, I am cheap :-)]
Prospect Heights Tour should be great this year. Can’t wait!
It will be great as always, but Crown Heights is having their very first, so show some support.
It is five minutes east of Park Slope on Eastern Pkwy, two minutes if you catch the lights.
Where is Crown Heights?
Thanks in advance for the info.
Putnamdenizen,
Not sure what planet you’re from, but Prospect Heights was not considered dangerous eight years ago (1999?). Maybe 15-20 years ago, but definitely not eight.
Having said that, I do agree that Crown Heights is on the rise and will continue to attract buyers, amenities, etc.
Putnamdenizen, thanks for your support! You too, Bob, and others. Hope to see you all there.
Prospect Hts, we’ll be supporting you next week, and Bed Stuy the week after. Your advice and support is helping to make this tour possible.
We still need volunteers too. If anyone would like to be a house sitter, or help out in any way, please contact us via CrownHgtsNorth at aol dot com.
CHNA HT committee4
Guest at 11:56 – see this archive discussion of the landmarking process. You have to scroll down towards the end, but there is a detailed description of what we did for landmarking in CH.
http://bstoner.wpengine.com/brownstoner/archives/2007/06/change_of_contr.php#comments
If the link doesn’t work, it’s from June 29th, 2007 in a thread about historic Wallabout buildings.