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April 5, 2010
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Molly Dannenmaier
Director of Marketing and Public Relations
409-765-7834 (o)
409-771-5105 (c)
Tickets Now Available Online and at Area Kroger Stores for Galveston Historical Foundation’s “Going Green” Historic Homes Tour
First Impression Preview Evening Event Offers Exclusive Tours
(GALVESTON, TX) - Tickets are available online and at your neighborhood Kroger store for Galveston Historical Foundation’s 2010 “Going Green” Historic Homes Tour, held during the first two weekends in May.
Advance tickets for the tour, which features 10 privately owned historic homes, are $20 each, but visitors seeking even more exclusive historical excursions should check out GHF’s special events calendar for great deals, particularly the wonderful “First Impression Preview Evening Tour: A Stroll Through Galveston’s East End.” This special evening on Friday, April 30, includes a wine and hors d’oeuvres reception, entertainment, and visits to five privately owned historic homes, four of which are not on the regular tour. The admission price of the First Impression Preview Evening Tour includes a regular Homes Tour ticket.
Tickets for the First Impression Tour are $60 each.
“This opening-night special tour is one of the best bargains in an array of special events we have prepared for Homes Tour visitors,” said Clay Wade, GHF events director. “The preview tour is from 5:30 to 9 p.m. with the reception from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. at the magnificent Trube Castle. After refreshments, First Impression ticket holders can take a leisurely walk around the neighborhood, visiting one home that’s on the regular tour and four that are open only that evening.”
The regular Historic Homes Tour includes 10 houses, six of which survived the Great Storm that struck Galveston in 1900. This year’s tour theme is “Going Green: What’s Old is New Again.”
As visitors make the rounds of the houses, they will learn about the “green” aspects of historic architecture, features such as floor-to-ceiling windows, transoms above doors and rain-catching cisterns that helped make island life more comfortable before the luxuries of electricity, natural gas and municipal water systems were widespread.
The regular Homes Tour is scheduled Saturdays, May 1 and 8, and Sundays, May 2 and 9, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. For online tickets to the regular tour and related special events, go to www.galvestonhistory.org. Advance tickets are available there and at Kroger stores until May 1. Tickets for the regular tour are $25 beginning May 1. During all of May, Homes Tour ticketholders can use the tickets to get $1 off admission to the Bishop’s Palace, Texas Seaport Museum and Tall Ship Elissa, Great Storm Theater and the Moody Mansion Museum.
GHF also offers husbands, sons and daughters a wonderful way to treat Mom for Mother’s Day. On Sunday, May 9, from 10 a.m. to noon, families can attend “Linen and Lace: A Mother’s Day Champagne Brunch and Fashion Show.” This event will be held at the 1880 Garten Verein Pavilion, one of the city’s most historic cultural sites. “Linen and Lace” includes a sumptuous Mother’s Day brunch along with a fashion show by Head to Footsies, an exclusive boutique located in Galveston’s restored downtown Strand district. The Garten Verein pavilion, located at 27th and Avenue O, was the gathering place for decades of Galveston’s large community of German immigrants and their descendants.
“There are few more beautiful or historic settings for Mother’s Day brunch in Texas,” said GHF Executive Director Dwayne Jones. “This is always one of most popular special events during our Historic Homes Tour.”
Additional special events during Homes Tour are:
- Lemonade Lunches, Saturdays, May 1 and 8, 11:30 a.m. and 1 p.m., 1861 U.S. Custom House, 502 20th St. Tickets are $20 per person.
- Basement to Attic: A Behind-the-Scenes Tour of Bishop’s Palace, Saturdays, May 1 and 8 at 5 p.m., Broadway and 14th Street. Tickets are $30 per person and each tour is limited to 24 people.
- 2010 Sally Wallace Historic Preservation Awards, Friday, May 7, 6 p.m., Ashton Villa Ballroom, Broadway and 24th Street. Tickets are $15 each, $12 for GHF members.
- The Art of Eugene Aubry, Saturdays, May 1 and 8, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., 1403 Tremont (23rd Street). Meet renowned former Houston architect Eugene Aubry, the new Historic Homes Tour official artist.
- Bike Through History, Sunday, May 2, 10 a.m., 1861 U.S. Custom House, 502 20th St. Tickets for the approximately 1-hour ride are $10. Participants must sign liability waiver.
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