Boston-Edison
Annual Holiday Home Tour
Mid-December (on a Sunday) Every Year
Get on the List!
Want to receive a postcard reminder when tickets go on sale? Send us an email at bostonedison@gmail.com with your NAME and STREET ADDRESS, and we'll send you a postcard in November when tickets are available. Or you can contact us by phone or USPS.
Five homes, decorated for the Holidays, are open for the Annual Boston-Edison Holiday Home Tour. The Tour is a chance for you to view the fine exterior and interior residential architecture of the early 1900's. The tour transports you back to the "Golden Age" of Detroit, when Boston-Edison residents included such familiar names as Henry Ford I, James Couzens, Charles T. Fisher, and S.S. Kresge.
The tour is a combination walking and bus tour (walking is minimal; in some years people may walk between two nearby houses). Everyone is part of a group that is accompanied by a resident tour guide. Tours begin at the Sacred Heart Seminary, which is at the corner of Linwood Avenue and Chicago Boulevard in Detroit. Busses leave every 20 minutes from 10:00 a.m. until 4:00 p.m. Tours generally last about two hours. Following the tour, complimentary refreshments are served.
Self-guided tours of the neighborhood are also available in the "tour" section.
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Everyone on the tour receives a commemorative program with histories and photographs of the five homes.
POSTPONEMENT:
Weather has forced postponement of the Home Tour only once in our 30-year history. However, a make-up date will be planned should weather delay the Tour. All tickets will be honored for the same tour time on that date. In the case of a postponement, HBEA will announce it on our website.
TICKETS ARE NON-REFUNDABLE
Ordering Tickets
Tickets are around $20 apiece
(of which $10 is a tax deductible contribution)
Tickets for the Home Tour are available only by advance sale, typically beginning in early November. Send us an email at bostonedison@gmail.com with your NAME and STREET ADDRESS, and we'll send you a postcard when tickets are available.
For up-to-the-minute Home Tour information and instructions on how to order tickets, call (313) 883-4360, select the Home Tour voice mailbox (Box One).