Fairmount Historic Home Tour
The 43rd Annual Fairmount Tour of Historic Homes this Mother’s Day weekend promises to be a real winner with at least seven exceptional sites to explore each with histories spanning a century. The weekend’s festivities will also include an outdoor fair held in Fairmount Park on May 9 complete with local artists and food trucks.…
Do your ears perk up at the phrase “period-appropriate renovation”? Do you judge a home by its baseboards? Do you brake for bay windows? Yeah, so we do. That’s why we’ve put together this list of upcoming home tours to satisfy the architecture enthusiast or design aficionado inside you: White Rock Home Tour Dates: April…
The Fairmount Tour of Historic Homes has become a Fort Worth rite of spring, an eagerly awaited opportunity for area residents to savor this unique neighborhood — the only National Historic District in the Dallas-Fort Worth area and the largest in the Southwest. The 40th annual tour, again held on Mother’s Day weekend, promises to…
By John English Contributing Writer Located in Fort Worth near Southside is the historic district of Fairmount. Construction on the middle class development first began in the year 1890, continued through the late 1930’s, and is “representative of the early 20th-century streetcar suburb, with a diversity of house forms, related institutional and commercial properties,” according…
Another sign of post-COVID spring and the happy return of life and its rituals to normality is the return of the much-beloved Fairmount Tour of Historic Homes. This marks the 40th tour after a two-year hiatus. Last year’s porch tour was hardly a replacement. It was a reminder of yet more pandemic restrictions. This year…
