PLG House Tour Is This Weekend as Newsletter Goes Up Online
The newsletter describes in detail the townhouses, apartment, and gardens that will be on this Sunday’s tour.
Photo by Martin Friedman via Lefferts Manor Association
The latest edition of the long-running Prospect Lefferts Gardens neighborhood association newsletter “The Echo” is up online just in time for this weekend’s house tour. The Lefferts Manor Association newsletter describes in detail the seven townhouses and one apartment that will be on this year’s tour.
All are within a few blocks of each other, making this year’s tour compact and easy to walk. Most are designed by well known architects such as John J. Petit and Axel Hedman and replete with original details.
Highlights of the 51st Prospect Lefferts Gardens House and Garden Tour include a colorfully decorated Edwardian row house with a pink kitchen, a garden apartment with tropical palm-leaf wallpaper, and an unusual three-story 1920s row house with terrace and attached garage.
No fewer than four gardens and assorted other outdoor spaces will offer inspiration to budding green thumbs. This includes the backyard Lefferts Lounge, where attendees can sip a drink, listen to live music, and chat with neighbors.
One of the houses on the tour was recently renovated by the children who grew up in it, realizing their parents’ long-held dream to be on the tour.
The newsletter also profiles a longtime local resident, covers a new hardware store, delves into the history of neighborhood oak barrel flower planters, and surveys plants suitable for sidewalk tree pits.
The house tour takes place rain or shine from noon to 5 p.m. Sunday, June 1. Tickets are $40 and can be purchased online ahead of time or in person the day of the tour. Check-in takes place in front of IX Restaurant at 43 Lincoln Road, where ticket holders will receive a guide booklet with all the details on the participating sites.
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I just found out that there was another tour in June 1st. The Victorian Flatbush tour resumed after a very long hiatus. It’s a shame that it was the same day as our tour and that it was not publicized. If it continues next year I hope we can coordinate dstes to avoid conflicts.
Thanks so much for mentioning that Bob! I didn’t hear anything about it, but will keep it in mind for next year!
Tour was terrific and chatted with lots of people. Many fun wallpapers, immaculate cellars, beautiful gardens, original detail, and inspiring updates. A beautifully decorated apartment was a trove of ideas. Other notions included a flexible hanging door screen to keep out bugs, a new flight of stairs to create a walk-out roof deck, and a modernized floor plan with new parlor kitchen that looked original thanks to graceful plaster arches and other moldings borrowed from elsewhere in the house. Lefferts Lounge was relaxing with live music, lots to eat, and people to talk with.
Thanks for this comment Cate. I’m glad that we had a chance to chat during the tour. I was stationed in my next door neighbor’s house. i anticipated a beautiful renovation because it took about a year and a half, but the result was beyond anything I’d imagined. They moved walls around, but reused most of the original woodwork. The roof deck and the nee, but original-looking staircase are fantastic and I couldn’t believe what they did with the cellar.
It was a great tour! Such interesting houses and a wonderful vibe.
I’ll be working the noon to 2:30 shift in a house on Midwood Street. I’d love a chance to chat with other Brownstoner readers.