Upcoming Speaking Engagements

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Charles Lockwood is available for speaking engagements. To discuss details and schedule a talk for your organization, please e-mail info@charleslockwood.com or call 212-859-5070.

Previous Speaking Engagements

Sunday, April 17, 2005 — Starts at 2:00 PM

How to Build and Buy a Brownstone....1860

Brooklyn Historical Society, 128 Pierrepont Street, Brooklyn.

Pre-paid reservations are required as availability is limited. Sorry, no refunds. Members $10, Non-members $15, or $18 at the door. Call 718-222-4111. Extension 250.

Brooklyn and Manhattan residents were just as passionate about residential
real estate 100 to 150 years ago as they are today.  Brownstones were expensive....and in short supply.

This heavily illustrated one-hour presentation will introduce the audience to brownstone architectural styles and explain how 19th-century families lived in the houses.  Then, it will focus on how vacant land was sold and subdivided into building lots, how the lots were sold, how the city opened streets and extended essential services (like water, sewers, and transit) into the new neighborhoods, how brownstones were designed and constructed, and how they were advertised and sold. 

Learn the similarities between yesterday's and today's townhouse sales.  In the 19th century, real estate agents advertised the houses in the newspapers, printed up brochures to sell the more costly properties, even held open houses. 
 
One thing has changed—the prices.  In 1852, a 25-foot-wide Remsen Street brownstone—"built in the best manner"—sold for $14,000.

Tuesday, June 8, 2004

Starts at 6:30 PM

Bricks and Brownstone: The Secrets of New York City Townhouses

Makor/Steinhardt Center of the 92 nd Street Y
35 West 67 th Street (between Columbus Avenue and Central Park West), New York
212-601-1000
Admission $12 in advance, $15 at the door.
See www.makor.org or www.landmarkwest.org

Join Bricks and Brownstone author Charles Lockwood for a heavily illustrated lecture on the hidden stories behind how New York's historic townhouses were originally designed, built, sold, and functioned as family homes, followed by a book sale and signing.   Sponsored by Landmark West! and the Makor/Steinhardt Center of the 92 nd Street Y.

Wednesday, June 9, 2004

Starts at 6:00 PM

Walking Tour: The Upper West Side's Best Kept Secret

Riverside Drive at West 103 rd Street, New York
Registration $15 through Landmark West!
212-496-8110
or contact: landmarkwest@landmarkwest.org

Join Bricks and Brownstone author Charles Lockwood for a walking tour of Riverside Drive between West 103 rd and West 108 th Streets.   See grand Parisian-inspired Beaux Arts mansions that overlook the Hudson River and rows of little-changed Renaissance Revival, Georgian Revival, and Beaux Art townhouses on the quiet sidestreets off Riverside Drive.   Learn more about the proposed Riverside Drive/West 107 th -West 108 th Street Historic District.   Sponsored by Landmark West!

Saturday, December 4, 2004

Starts at 4:00 PM

Where are New York's Best Brownstones? Hint . . Hint…Not in Manhattan!

Brooklyn Public Library/Main Branch
Grand Army Plaza
Brooklyn, NY 11238
718-238-2100

Admission: Free

At this illustrated talk, Charles Lockwood will not only explain why Brooklyn has New York City's best brownstones, he will discuss the various Brooklyn architectural styles that distinguish one era's townhouses from another's, and he will describe the day-to-day lives of the Brooklyn families who originally lived in these wonderful residences. “Today is the Golden Age for Brooklyn brownstones,” he says, “because we get to enjoy these townhouses' large rooms and landmark architecture, and we also have hot and cold running water, bathrooms, reliable furnaces, fully equipped kitchens, and air conditioning, which were lacking when many of these houses were originally built.”

During this talk, he will also show nineteenth-century photographs and engravings of Brooklyn brownstones, as well as recently taken photographs of half a dozen restored single-family townhouses in a variety of architectural styles. A Question & Answer session will follow the talk.

Charles Lockwood is available for speaking engagements. To discuss details and schedule a talk for your organization, please e-mail info@charleslockwood.com or call 212-859-5070.