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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Preservation Durham Home Tour May 21 and 22 – Don’t Miss It!<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Preservation Durham will offer a home tour this spring. This tour is designed to highlight excellent recent renovations of historic homes and to champion the preservation choices of their owners. Houses included are located all over Durham and represent a number of styles and periods. The architects, designers, and contractors responsible for the work will be showcased. Preservation can mean a lot of things and the homes on tour will demonstrate that. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Just to whet your interest, the tour will include the <span style='font-size:14.0pt'>Giles Latta House</span> in northern Durham County. The oldest portion of this house was built in 1850. The house and its period outbuildings have been saved from ruin by new owners. Also, we will show you a wonderful conversion of an historic garage into a thoughtful personal eerie in a garden setting. The tour includes a couple of century-old worker’s cottages preserved for another century of useful life. There is a cluster of beautiful homes just north of downtown, all of them designed by the same important Durham architects, but now saved by new owners each with their own idea about what preservation can be. Your will want to see them.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Perhaps the star of the tour will be the magnificent <span style='font-size:14.0pt'>Hill House</span> on South Duke Street. Designed in the Spanish Mission Style for Durham philanthropists John Sprunt Hill and his wife Annie Watts Hill. This house has just emerged from a painstaking restoration. Seldom opened to the public, the Hill House is wonderful to see and not to be missed.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>The tour is scheduled for the weekend of May 21 and 22, from noon until 4 p.m. each day. Your ticket will include both days so you can visit all the houses at your own pace. Tour-goer will receive a tour booklet describing each house and its history. To buy tickets, click on this Eventbrite link: <a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/2022-preservation-durham-home-tour-then-now-tickets-323251673457"><span style='color:blue'>https://www.eventbrite.com/e/2022-preservation-durham-home-tour-then-now-tickets-323251673457</span></a> .<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Preservation Durham has been presenting the best of Durham’s historic architecture in tours like this for more than twenty-five years. Mark your calendars. It’ll be fun! This event will conform to all covid guidelines.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>