On Saturday, March 17, select from your choice of walking tours and lectures. The annual Home Tour will be held on Sunday, March 18.

Walking tours with morning and afternoon sessions

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.

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. (More information HERE)

Saturday Lectures

Lectures will take place at the rarely opened to the public Wednesday Club, which was designed by Hazel Wood Waterman in 1908. Presentations will include Emmor Brooke Weaver - A Designer of Artistic Bungalows in San Diego's Middle Landscape by Alex Bevil, Historian II for the State of California and published Weaver authority, Lost Sixth Avenue - From Presidential Libraries to Greene & Greene with award winning filmmaker and historian Dan Soderberg, and The Influence of the Prairie School in San Diego by research historian and 2012 Home Tour Weekend chairman, Allen Hazard. (More information HERE)

Twilight Reception - Saturday evening

The evening includes hors d'oeuvres and fine wine concluding the day of in-depth architectural activities with a unique and intimate experience at the Hebbard & Gill masterpiece, the Marston House. The party will also include private tours of this preeminent Arts & Crafts home. (More information HERE)

Sunday, March 18

Tour of five historic homes in Bankers Hill. The self-driven home tour showcases five houses 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.

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. 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.

The Annual Historic Home Tour Weekend is an important fundraiser for SOHO. Funds generated further our work of promoting preservation of the architectural, cultural, and historical links and landmarks that contribute to the community identity, depth, and character of the San Diego region. (More Tour and Weekend information HERE)