Tour-goers line up at the Egon and UrteTuerpe house on Hickory Avenue in the Indian Beach neighborhood of Sarasota on Sunday, March 3, 2013, for the Sarasota Alliance for Historic Preservation's Historic Homes Tour. "It was our best year ever," said tour co-chair Ron McCarty. He said all 1,200 tour booklets were sold, and that attendance exceeded that number. Staff photo / Harold Bubil; 3-3-2013.
The Sarasota Alliance for Historic Preservation reports that is Historic Homes Tour sold out all available tickets, and then some, on the March 3 tour day.
"It was our best year ever," said tour co-chair Ron McCarty.
McCarty is used to tourists traipsing through his house. He is curator of Ca' d'Zan, the John and Mable Ringling Mansion in Sarasota.
McCarty said all 1,200 tour booklets were sold, and that attendance exceeded that number.
Stops on the tour included the vitage Hickory Aveue houses, the American Foresquare house on Alameda Avenu that is being sold by Pat and Judy Ball, the Taykor-Whitfield house on Indian Beach at Bay Shore, and the elegant Arthur Day home on the bayfront section of Bay Shore.
Tour-goers inspect the kitchen of the Arthur Day house on Bay Shore Road in the Indian Beach neighborhood of Sarasota on Sunday, March 3, 2013, for the Sarasota Alliance for Historic Preservation's Historic Homes Tour. Staff photo / Harold Bubil; 3-3-2013.
Tour-goers squeeze into the Egon and Urte Teurpe house on Hickory Avenue in the Indian Beach neighborhood of Sarasota on Sunday, March 3, 2013, for the Sarasota Alliance for Historic Preservation's Historic Homes Tour. Staff photo / Harold Bubil; 3-3-2013.
Bay Haven School, designed in 1925 by M. Leo Elliott, was one of the stops on the Sarasota Alliance for Historic Preservation's Historic Homes Tour. Staff photo / Harold Bubil; 3-3-2013.
Tour-goers visit the Arthur Day house on Bay Shore Road in the Indian Beach neighborhood of Sarasota on Sunday, March 3, 2013, for the Sarasota Alliance for Historic Preservation's Historic Homes Tour. "It was our best year ever," said tour co-chair Ron McCarty. He said all 1,200 tour booklets were sold, and that attendance exceeded that number. Staff photo / Harold Bubil; 3-3-2013.
