PLG House Tour Tour-Day Photographs

Our tour had seven houses, one apartment, and four gardens. Five of the houses were Renaissance revival row houses on Midwood Street and Lincoln and Rutland Roads; the others  a Tudor revival and a colonial revival on Rutland Road and Sterling Street, respectively. The apartment was a large two-bedroom in Patio Gardens, a two-building early '60s high-rise on Flatbush Avenue. eleven local businesses (seven restaurants, four stores) offered discounts or other special incentives to tour-goers. Twenty-six businesses and one local arts organization contributed financially to the tour. Approximately five hundred people went on the tour. 

Some of the features that seemed most popular were the refreshments in three local gardens, which where not separately fenced, demonstrating the friendliness and neighborliness of Prospect Lefferts Gardens; an art-filled house (one of the owner's own paintings), and a house that demonstrated its recently installed solar electric set-up which actually produces roughly as much power as is consumed.

I was personally struck by the fairly large number of younger people who attended our tour (i.e. 30-somethings). My impression on another tour I attended in a nearby brownstone neighborhood two weeks earlier was that most tour-goers there were my age, or older. I take this to be a good sign.