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Group Walking Tours
Four Tours to Choose From
Discover San Diego history and culture with our museum and walking tours. Our walking tours offer an opportunity to learn new information, explore new places, and meet new people. They provide both physical and mental benefits. Walking is a low-impact form of exercise that can improve cardiovascular health, strengthen bones and muscles, and increase mobility and balance. Mentally, walking tours can stimulate the mind and provide a sense of relaxation, improve mood, and reduce stress.
We offer several options on every third Sunday of the month or by appointment for group tours. Explore the area on foot, taking in its sights and sounds, while learning about its rich history and heritage. Our knowledgeable guides will bring the past to life, offering insights and anecdotes that will engage and educate.
Bankers Hill Walking Tour
The sloped terrain of Bankers Hill, near downtown San Diego, is blessed with pedestrian bridges over canyons and views of San Diego Bay that few affluent professionals and first families and their architects could resist. This 90-minute guided walking tour contains new content inspired by SOHO's celebration Irving Gill: Progress & Poetry in Architecture. These city blocks are rich in the early 20th-century Modern architecture that Gill pioneered and include the largest concentration of Gill homes built anywhere, on hidden Albatross Street.
- All tours require a minimum of 10 people
- Groups of more than 20 will be broken into smaller numbers
- Must be reserved at least one week in advance
- Must be paid for at time reservation is made
- Cancellations must be made at least 12 hours in advance for refund
- Tour starts on the northwest corner of Albatross Street and West Walnut Avenue, San Diego 92103
Adults
Senior Citizens
Reserve your date and purchase tickets HERE
Seventh Avenue Walking Tour: A Progressive Vision
What began as a ten-acre, barren enclave owned by George W. Marston is now the shady and secluded 3500 block of Seventh Avenue, a cul-de-sac that is perfect for a one-hour guided walking tour. This tour contains new content inspired by SOHO's celebration called Irving Gill: Progress & Poetry in Architecture. The Marston House Museum & Gardens is one of about ten homes on the street, built between 1905 and 1913. Many were designed by Gill, when he was a partner in Hebbard & Gill, and they illustrate his design progression from English Arts & Crafts to Prairie Style to his ultimate triumph, cubistic Early Modernism-all in the space of two years, 1905 and 1906.
- All tours require a minimum of 10 people
- Groups of more than 20 will be broken into smaller numbers
- Must be reserved at least one week in advance
- Must be paid for at time reservation is made
- Cancellations must be made at least 12 hours in advance for refund
- Tour starts at the Marston House Museum Shop in the carriage house
Adults
Senior Citizens
Reserve your date and purchase tickets HERE
Marston House Garden Guided Tour
With its uniquely California interpretation of the English Romantic and Arts & Crafts period landscape designs, this tour is a must for garden lovers. The garden tour takes you on an easy walk through two and a half acres of the estate beginning with the first plantings and landscape plan by nationally recognized landscape architect Samuel Parsons, Jr., and George Cooke in 1905 to the 1928 introduction of a formal garden.
- All tours require a minimum of 10 people
- Groups of more than 20 will be broken into smaller numbers
- Must be reserved at least one week in advance
- Must be paid for at time reservation is made
- Cancellations must be made at least 12 hours in advance for refund
- Tour starts at the Marston House Museum Shop in the carriage house
Adults
Senior Citizens
Reserve your date and purchase tickets HERE
Architectural Details of Master Architects Hebbard & Gill Tour
Take a walk on the architectural side with a 90-minute guided tour of the 1905 Marston House Museum inside and out. The San Diego firm of Hebbard & Gill designed the inviting English Arts & Crafts mansion with fluid indoor-outdoor connections. Irving Gill, who soon became San Diego's pioneering Modernist, created many of its design features and innovative conveniences. The story begins at the carriage house for the estate (now SOHO's Marston House Museum Shop), then circles around the house in its Balboa Park and formal garden setting. Inside and out, architectural and construction details and period materials are highlighted, and include the Marston family's public and private rooms.
- All tours require a minimum of 10 people
- Groups of more than 15 will be broken into smaller numbers
- Must be reserved at least one week in advance
- Must be paid for at time reservation is made
- Cancellations must be made at least 12 hours in advance for refund
- Allow 60 to 90 minutes for your home tour at the Marston House, and allow for extra time if you wish to view the public gardens as well
- Tour starts at the Marston House Museum Shop in the carriage house
Adults
Senior Citizens
Reserve your date and purchase tickets HERE
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