The Annual Park City Historic Home Tour is back tomorrow.
The walking tour starts at Town Lift Plaza and is open from 10:00 am until 3:00 in the afternoon. Park City Museum Executive Director Sandra Morrison says those who take the tour will see 10 historic homes plus the Washington School and the Crescent Tramway.
“They’re all located on a loop, 500 and 600 blocks of Park Ave and Woodside. It’s a self-guided tour, but we have volunteeres in each of the homes. We've done a lot of research on the history and the families that built the homes and lived in the homes over the years. So, they'll be giving you quite the discussion about the history of the homes. Most people spend about two hours so come anytime get your tickets. We're very proud of our homeowners and we thank them for opening their home for the day.”
The homes on the tour were built between the 1870’s to 1910. Morrison says they reach out to homeowners to ask them to be a part of the annual tour. They try and centralize the tours to make them walkable. Morrison points out the tour is rather different from other home tours.
“When they were built there was no such thing as indoor plumbing or central heating and possibly even no electricity for those ones built in the 1870s. How did the miners live back then? Then to what degree have these homeowners tried to make these very small houses livable today with modern conveniences? Yeah, it’s not like a home tour where you going out into the suburbs to see the latest and greatest construction and three car garages and modern appliances. This is an exploration into how you can adaptively reuse a historic home and celebrate its history.”
Tickets for the tour are $20. They are available at the museum and online today and at town lift plaza tomorrow.
