SARATOGA SPRINGS\u00a0\u2014 The Saratoga Springs Preservation Foundation will host its 2026 Historic Homes Tour from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, May 9.<\/p>\n
\nJulie Fureye will serve as honorary chair for the foundation\u2019s largest annual event that offers the chance to peek inside the interiors of private historic homes and buildings. This year the tour will be of the East Side of Saratoga Springs and include a restored, grand\u00a0Italianate, an early Greek Revival residence on Caroline Street and two buildings that have been adaptively reused into living spaces.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThe tour shows the varied architecture and history of our beautiful community that is worthy of preservation. I\u2019m grateful each year for the owners who generously open their spaces to benefit our mission,\u201d said Samantha Bosshart, executive director of the foundation\u00a0in a press release.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
In addition to the tour, the foundation will host two educational programs at the Saratoga Joinery at 69 Caroline St. At\u00a0 9 a.m. will be the \u201cBreakfast & Buildings\u201d program titled \u201cAn Early History of Women\u2019s Education in Saratoga Springs,\u201d and features city historian Matthew Veitch who will share the story of the Temple Grove Seminary and the Young Women\u2019s Industrial Club, today Skidmore College. At noon, Carol Godette will present the \u201cLunch & Learn\u201d program, \u201cOn This Spot: 69 Caroline Street\u201d that will explore the many incarnations of the 1880s brick duplex.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Historic Homes Tour supports the foundation\u2019s mission to promote the preservation and enhancement of the architectural, cultural and landscaped heritage of Saratoga Springs through educational programs, advocacy efforts, technical assistance and restoration projects.<\/p>\n
Tickets for the tour are $40 for Saratoga Springs Preservation Foundation members and $50 for nonmembers; day-of tickets can be purchased for $55. A virtual tour option, produced by Green River Pictures, is available for $20 and $25, respectively. Tickets for the educational programs are $35 each and must be purchased by May 6.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SARATOGA SPRINGS\u00a0\u2014 The Saratoga Springs Preservation Foundation will host its 2026 Historic Homes Tour from 10 a.m. to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":196784,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[844,610,9,11,10,49,51,50,7011,31841],"class_list":["post-196783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-latestnews","tag-local","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-state","tag-new-york-state-headlines","tag-new-york-state-news","tag-realestate","tag-sarco"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196783\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/196784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}