Online Membership Payments
You may join or renew your LMA membership by visiting https://lefferts-manor-association.square.site/.
Membership is $25* per household, $15* for seniors.
Membership includes one holiday wreath, and extras are available for purchase at $12* each.
Wreath distribution day for 2024 will be Saturday, December 7th.*an additional $1 merchant fee will be added to each membership or extra wreath purchased.
LMA Echo, Latest Edition PDF
(Spring 2024 House Tour Special Edition)
STORIES THIS ISSUE:
House Tour 50: What's on View - Roberta Woelfling
Behind the Facade - Roberta Woelfling
What beasts lurk behind the facade of this Maple Street limestone, a stop on this year's House Tour?
Stoop Talk:The Beauty of PLG
Two real estate salespersons who own homes on Midwood II discuss the beauty of Lefferts Manor architecture and the draw of PLG.
Color, Color, Color! The Fabulous Kitchens of Rutland Road - Pam Glaser
"Color color color! The whole shebang makes me happy," Mary Miller (Rutland II) says of her new Capri Blue kitchen.
The kitchen also made their next door neighbors happy. So happy, in fact, they decided to remodel their kitchen with similar appliances in their favorite color: Flame Red. See both kitchens on the Tour!
NOTICES & EVENTS:
THE GREAT PLG STOOP & SIDEWALK SALE
Saturday, June 8, 2024 11am-4pm
3rd Annual PLG Arts Fest Now 2-Day Affair
In a departure from previous years, the third annual PLG Arts Fest 2024 will take place on two days this year: Saturday, June 22, and Sunday, June 23.
Tag Archives: centennial
The Changing Face of Lefferts Manor 1983 – 1993 – Lefferts Farm Divided
John Lefferts died in 1895 marking a turning point in the transition of rural farm lands to suburban residences. Breaking with patrilineal traditions, he willed his property to his seven children who knew the value of the land was in … Continue reading
The Changing Face of Lefferts Manor 1893 – 1993 – Emerging Middle Class & Victorian Ideal of Family and Home
By the end of the 19th Century, factories rather than farms became the dominant mode of production in the United States. As the industrializing city became more congested and polluted, the notion of the single-family house as haven from the … Continue reading
The Changing Face of Lefferts Manor 1893 – 1993 – Architecture
The architectural structure of Lefferts Manor as a rowhouse neighborhood has survived virtually unchanged since the time of its development. By 1899 four houses were built and sold. 507 homes were constructed between 1905 and 1922. The final three houses … Continue reading
The Changing Face of Lefferts Manor 1893 – 1993
By Mary Miller In 1993 the Lefferts Manor Association sponsored an exhibit at the Lefferts Homestead in Prospect Park. The exhibit was a celebration of the centennial of the founding of the Lefferts Manor development, which grew from the Lefferts’ … Continue reading