Annual Historic Home Tour Weekend 2012

Save Our Heritage Organisation

March 17-18, 2012
SOHO's Annual Historic Home Tour Weekend

Historic Home Tour (Sunday Only)
Featuring Early 20th Century Bankers Hill
Sunday only · 10am-4pm
SOHO members $30 · Non-members $40
Purchase Advance Tickets
Tickets will still be available the weekend of event (Sat & Sun)

Lectures
Saturday · 1pm · 2:15pm · 3:30pm
SOHO members $10 each · Non-members $15 each
Purchase Advance Tickets

Bankers Hill Walking Tour
Saturday · 11am · 1pm
SOHO Members & Non-members alike $15 each
SOLD OUT

Historic Seventh Avenue Walking Tour
Saturday · 2pm · 4pm
SOHO Members & Non-members alike $10 each
SOLD OUT

Twilight Tour & Reception
Marston House
Saturday evening · 6:30-9pm
SOHO members $45 · Non-members $55
Postponed due to rain - More information HERE

Event Headquarters: Marston House Museum Shop
Saturday & Sunday · 10am-5pm
Special event sale

Ticket & Program pick up
A tour program booklet with maps and background information on each home will be provided. Your ticket and tour program are available for pickup on the day before the event, Friday, March 16, and during the event weekend only at the Marston House Museum Shop Event Headquarters. You will need to park (Link to parking map) and walk to Marston House Museum Shop on Saturday, March 17 (suggested after 12pm due to St. Patrick's Day parade), or Sunday, beginning at 9:30am, March 18 only. No drive up service will be extended. The tour is self-driven; there are no trolleys for this year's tour.

Event Headquarters - Marston House Museum Shop
3525 Seventh Avenue in Hillcrest/Bankers Hill area.

Note Programs may be picked up on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday only at the Marston House.

Important ticket information

If you are not a SOHO member and wish to join now, you will receive the discounted prices. This is an immediate benefit of membership. Join HERE.

Tickets purchased by phone or fax before February 28 will be mailed to you. You will still need to provide the name of the ticket holder when you turn in your ticket for the tour program for control purposes.

When purchasing tickets online, you will be given several options to choose from, these include being placed on the Will Call list, Print-at-Home Tickets, Mobile Phone Tickets, and Physical Tickets that will be mailed to you. Please choose one of these options upon purchase!

Home Tour tickets purchased on the day of the tour, Sunday, March 18, are $50. No discounts.
Tickets may be picked up in advance of the weekend at the time of purchase at either of our two museum shops. Note You may pick up your Home Tour Program ONLY at the Marston House during the weekend of the event.

Marston House Museum Shop: Friday-Monday 10am-5pm
(And throughout the event weekend)

Whaley House Museum Shop: Sunday - Tuesday 10am-5pm, Wednesday closed, Thursday - Saturday 10am-9:30pm
(Until March 16 at 5pm)

About the Tour
The self-driven home tour showcases five houses, four of which were designed by master architects G.A. Hanssen, Richard Requa and Frank Mead, Emmor Brooke Weaver, and William Templeton Johnson. Prominent gardens will also be featured.

During the late 19th century, Bankers Hill became one of the city's most fashionable places to live for bankers and other professionals, hence the name. During the early 20th century, it continued to be a prominent area with a Who's Who of San Diego as its residents. Because of this massing of wealth and community leaders Bankers Hill has major works by the leading architects, designers, and builders of the day. The highest concentration of Irving Gill homes in the city can be found here along with significant works by Frank Mead, William S. Hebbard, Louis Gill, Frank Mead, Richard Requa, Emmor Brooke Weaver, Hazel Wood Waterman, Quayle Brothers, William Templeton Johnson, and many lesser known, but very talented builders whose collective work make Bankers Hill one of the San Diego communities whose identity still remains uniquely San Diego.

Notes

Because the tour is in Bankers Hill the natural topography means that several homes have multiple flights of stairs to climb or otherwise steep areas

No trolley service is provided this year as the homes are all in the same neighborhood

There is no ADA accessibility, as these are private homes

Parking is on street only as these are all located in residential areas

Please consider all of this before purchasing your ticket. As always, there are no refunds, if you are unable to use your tickets you may consider it as a donation to SOHO.

Walking Tours
These are small walking groups to allow for a quality experience. Advance tickets are strongly encouraged.

90-minute walking tour of Bankers Hill This tour will highlight both grand and modest works of master architects as tour guides reveal little known facts and new information on the architectural history of the area. Walkers will take an exteriors only guided tour and experience some of San Diego's greatest and most significant homes by master architects Irving Gill, Carlton Winslow, William Templeton Johnson, Richard Requa and Frank Mead, and others.
*Purchase tickets in advance OR on Saturday if not sold out, you may purchase tickets at the Marston House, then meet at corner of Albatross Street & W. Walnut Avenue
Saturday · 11am · 1pm

Historic Seventh Avenue This tour features the highest concentration of homes by Irving Gill in San Diego, as well as important works by the Pacific Building Company, Mead & Requa, and more. Homes highlighted include the Marston House, as well as Gill's early Prairie School homes, all built in the first decade of the 20th century.
Saturday · 2pm · 4pm

Lectures
Lectures to be held at The Wednesday Club, designed by Hazel Wood Waterman
540 Ivy Lane, San Diego (Map link)
(No ticket sales at the lecture hall, no exceptions. Limited seating available. Advance tickets are strongly encouraged.)

Alex Bevil
Emmor Brooke Weaver -
A Designer of Artistic Bungalows in San Diego's Middle Landscape
1pm

Although competent in a broad palate of architectural styles, from Storybook Medieval English cottage to Renaissance Italian villa, Emmor Brooke Weaver is regarded as one of only a handful of architects able to elevate the woodsy California Arts & Crafts style bungalow up to the level of true architecture.

The presentation will focus on the impact that Weaver had on the urban landscape of Bankers Hill. One of the premier interpreters of the Craftsman style in San Diego, Emmor Brooke Weaver-designed homes, particularly his bungalows, evoke a time when progressive-minded San Diegans sought to "live the good life" in an artistically designed yet rustic home set amid the boulders and sagebrush of what once was San Diego's "Middle Landscape."

Dan Soderberg
Lost Sixth Avenue -
From Presidential Libraries to Greene & Greene
2:15pm

The history of loss and transformation goes back to when a portion of Balboa Park's western edge was taken to make Sixth Avenue a continuous street. We'll examine some of the prominent homes and mansions that once graced the avenue before and after making it a through street. Discover how the orientation of some homes to their lot reveals the time from before Balboa Park was even a landscaped park. The story of the homes and mansions of Sixth Avenue is also the story of those who built them and lived there. We'll explore several of those stories through photographs and postcards, and we'll compare those to how it looks today. The lost homes of Sixth Avenue can help us better appreciate the need for preserving the remaining sites that are a witness to San Diego history.

Allen Hazard
The Chicago Connection in San Diego -
How the Prairie School Influenced San Diego
3:30pm

Louis Sullivan and Frank Lloyd Wright are the two giants of the 1900 to 1915 Prairie School, a uniquely indigenous American architectural style. The largely residential movement spread from the Midwest across America and ultimately to San Diego when former Sullivan & Adler draftsman Irving Gill, along with William S. Hebbard, designed the first Prairie School homes along Seventh Avenue in 1905.

The presentation will cover the San Diego architects who trained in the Midwest, particularly Chicago and how they applied these principles here, the prominent Prairie School artists, and the work of local builders, who would also borrow from the style with their own interpretations. Hazard will also examine the possible influence of San Diego on Frank Lloyd Wright.

The enduring legacy of the Prairie School can be seen in several of our early 20th century neighborhoods such as Mission Hills, Loma Portal, and Bankers Hill.

Marston House Museum Shop Sale
The Marston House shop has been called one of San Diego's best-kept secrets. Here you can find gifts, Arts & Crafts style jewelry, heirloom garden seeds and plants, exclusive items using William Templeton Johnson's iconic eucalyptus design and of course the best selection in the city of historic architecture and DIY restoration books focusing on the architectural styles San Diego.

Dining
Local restaurants abound throughout Bankers Hill and Hillcrest. Plan your day's dining in advance using this easy dining guide from our sponsors at HillQuest

Volunteers
If you would like to volunteer during the weekend, please send us an email at Volunteer@SOHOsandiego.org

Purchase Advance Tickets
Online HERE (Make sure to scroll through all ticket options, days, & times)
Call SOHO (619) 297-9327 or (619) 297-7511
In person Marston House Museum Shop, 3525 Seventh Avenue
(And throughout the event weekend);
Whaley House Museum Shop, 2476 San Diego Avenue (Until Friday, March 16 at 5pm)
*Children's tickets are full price
**Reminder Home Tour Tickets purchased the day of the tour are $50. No exceptions

Proceeds benefit SOHO's advocacy and preservation work. No refunds. Tours run rain or shine! The cost of unused tickets may be considered a tax deductible donation to SOHO, a 501 (c)3 non-profit organization.

Thank you to our Sponsors

Funding provided by the City of San Diego Commission for Arts & Culture.

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