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H o a s e & G a r d e n T o u r>74 - 1 to 5 o%u2019clockLadies are requested not towear high heel shoes. Gentlemen are requested not to wearshoes with metal cleats.Children under fifteen must bea'xompanied by an adult.While the etched-glass panels in he foyer doors.look authentically iriginal, they are, in fact, brand lew, the work of Peter Traina, vho, now in his 80%u2019s has lived and vorfced in Boerum Hill most of his ife. First and last, many of the %u25a0fill%u2019s brownstones have benefitted rom his meticulous craftsmanship. Mr. Traina designed as well as Tched this particular set.f t 182 DEAN STREET %u201d %u2022 Garden and parlor floors Painted yellow and white, as cheerful as a daffodil, the parlor floor of this smaller, twenty-footwide house (1860) offers a staggering amount of Italianate plaster detail, rich in leaf and flower. Its bachelor owner for eight years has opened partially bricked-over windows and provided 9-over-9-paned sashes. He found fireplaces plastered over and has re-opened them--rescued two new-old Carrara-marble mantels in a house being demolished and purchasedthem for-hold your breath-$10 apiece. The brass Williamsburg chandeliers are not old, but reproductions purchased in Italy, where the style is called %u201c Dutch.%u201d In the hall, the converted gas chandelier is antique and close to the period of the house. The inside entrance doors are probably the originals, but the etched-glass panels are, once more, the work of Peter Traina.According to their owner, theantique furnishings owe much to his family%u2019s basement in Connecticut-%u201c they never threw anything away%u201d -and include a Grandfather%u2019s clock and a Sheraton table.In the living room, also, is a French wardrobe and a parquetry table, neither basement vintage. Another charming parquetry gaming table stands in the dining room.Downstairs in the brick-walled kitchen the ceiling beams were dug out from under, first, a layer of plaster, then one of pressed tin. There is a fireplace sheltering a Franklin stove-the round walnut table is again family-basemeiyt issue. But it is the sink that makes the kitchen-an old-fashioned porcelain one with a sweep of a curved front.Through sliding glass doors, guests may enter the garden. 20 x 50 feet in size, it is large enough to include a flagstone terrace, a healthy border of varied evergreens, and a fountain.Boerum Hill Tour of an Earlier DayFLEA MARKET Wyckoff Street, bet.Bond # NevinsStreet fairs are a traditional part of Brooklyn life; in the spring they begin to bloom on this block or that, along with the first tulip. And long before the commercial flea market had begun to spread across the land, Boerum Hill neighbors regularly emptied their attics and cellars of junk and treasure to be sold at %u201cwhatever%u201d price, housewives baked their favorite recipes, soda pop and hot dogs were sold, street bands showed up.This year's street fair has been timed to coincide with the Tour. Coincidentally, it turned out to be the same date chosen by Wyckoff Street for a-what else&-StreetFair. The two have been cheerfully combined and should add up to an old-fashioned wingding of a Fair, with a portrait artist, a plant booth, soul food, souvlaki, yakitori, the inevitable pies, cakes, cookies, and homemade bread, frankfurters, soda pop, and, of course, our attic treasures...picture frames, vases, needlework, lamps, shutter...you really never know what%u2019s going to turn up.It would probably be wise to wind up the Tour hcre--saves carrying any purchases around all day-unless, of course, starvation sets in. %u201c In that case,%u201d the Flea Market chairman suggests, %u201c the visitor might want to drop in for lunch.%u201danniversary-although the present hoime, the congregation having met for its Not) until 1895 was this building finished. ! of the Brooklyn Eagle for that year, the ssifmal %u201cfrom the little church on Pacific retjvell service there at 10%u2019;30 a.m., to the 1 Avenue%u201d preseumably on the following J00[ persons and will cost about $80,000.%u201d rvijiig one of the largest Scandinavian /enue was called their Main Street-and a nded Upsala College, now located in East ises were held in 1893 in the church itself. :rs largely melted away during the blight italwartly to serve as a community church i Hill. Community meetings are held here ;ur community dramatic group rehearses nt-its smorgasbord suppers are widelycrimson and white and gold, speaks of its rist with extended arms is a symbol of the all who were burdened and heavy laden.C r e d i t sHouse & Garden Tour ChairmanCharlann ShakleyDonation$3.00Street Fair CoordinatorHeloise Gruenberg Publicity - Dennis\Text - Barbara SharnickHost & Hostesses - FrancesMillerPosters - Annette WilliamsTicket Sales - Nick WilderHistorical Text & Exposition -Tom ButsonPhotography & HistoricalExposition - Nancy riowersSUBWAY TRANSPORTATIONIRT 7th Ave. exnress stop: Hoyt or NevinsIRT Lexington express stop: NevinsIND \IND \IND \IND %u201c D \IND \dchermerhornBMT \BMT \f%u25a0 fray. -%u00bbm232 BERGEN STREET * %u2018 .Parlor and 3rd floorsThe lady of this family is a professional painter--originally from California--and she has brought her own sense of color and spatial relationships (and perhaps a little California sunshine) to her decorating. White, white walls where they are not brick. A pastel mulberry, blue, and green Chinese rug in the living room, and an ancient Iranian rug hung on the wall. A bright, bold acrylic painting (hers) on the dining room walls and in the living room, between the windows, a silk-screen print (also hers) that is part of the Metropolitan Museum%u2019s print collection.An 1862 house, not quite in the Landmarks district, it has retained little of the original interior trim-a beautiful arch in the hallway, stylized leaf ceiling moldings (restored) on the parlor floor. %u201cWe just couldn%u2019t save the wood moldings,%u201d she says. %u201cToo hacked up.%u201d In their place are unobtrusive, flat framing. But the wide-boardfloors were %u201c not too bad%u201d and, on the parlor floor, have been stained dark, a mix of ebony and walnut. Modern French doors open from the dining room onto a deck designed by the artist. Sunlight pours through the doors, and the deck itself makes a convenient place to look at the garden.Upstairs the bedroom, originally two rooms, has three recessed windows screened with louvered French doors-the effect is curiously tropical, one heightened by the unusual slate fireplace. On the mantel is a %u201cleg box%u201d , another of the artist%u2019s works. Hallway has a sprinkling of periwinkle blue in the doors, a color that has spread into the bathroom, which is otherwise black and white-with a window that is one of the few examples of the original woodwork. The wash basin has been sunk into what the owner calls a %u201cturn-of-theCentury Sears-Roebuck%u201d dresser, one of the many examples of the wit and verve that has gone into designing this very personal home.MM