Thousands of curious tourists could be seen walking the streets of Madison’s Historic District to explore some of the city’s most prized historic homes, churches, museums and sites of significance.
The annual Holiday Tour of Homes featured several historic homes decked with evergreen garland, crimson red bows, and twinkling white lights. Tourists were welcomed inside to view the interiors, also decorated for the holidays, learning about each home’s origin, evolution and lasting legacy.
This year’s tour was presented by the Madison-Morgan Cultural Center (MMCC), and offered daytime tours and evening candlelight tours. With nearly 3,500 ticket sales, this year’s tour raised approximately $100,000 for the cultural center, which will be used to fund the organization’s general operations expenses.
“This is our largest fundraiser of the year,” said David Nunn, managing director of the Cultural Center. “The turnout was incredible and all the houses were outstanding. We received great comments of the quality of the homes on tour this year.”
Credit: Tina Lynn Ivey
Credit: Tina Lynn Ivey
Nunn credited the success of the event to this year’s co-chairs, Jennifer Lockridge and Angie Fetch, along with Kathryn Cardwell.
“They were the ones doing all the planning and execution of this year’s tour and it was a great success,” said Nunn.
Nunn noted that this year’s tour featured nine private historic homes, in addition to the participating churches and museums.
“There were five private homes on the daytime tour and four on the candlelight evening tours,” said Nunn.
Some of the historic homes on this year’s tour included the Joshua Hill House on Old Post Road, Poullain Heights and the Starke-Collins House on North Main Street. Nunn praised the homeowners for volunteering to showcase their homes to benefit the Cultural center.
“These homeowners open their homes and they do that out of their generosity and support of the community and for the cultural center. It’s no small thing to open your house to a few thousand people and we cannot thank them enough for doing so,” said Nunn.
Credit: Morgan County Citizen
Credit: Morgan County Citizen
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