Four historic homes in downtown Batesville will be highlighted in an upcoming tour.
The Batesville Preservation Association recently announced details of its upcoming Spring Tour of Historic Homes.
Owners of four homes in the downtown historic district will be opening them for the tour on Sunday afternoon, May 15, the Association said in a release announcing the tour. All four homes are in the downtown historic residential district.
Below are descriptions of the homes from the Batesville Preservation Association.
- Jimmy and Lindsey Hodges will be opening their home at 7th and Main. Cut into apartments and then as a family violence shelter in earlier days, this Victorian house in the Italianate style was beautifully restored as a family home by Mrs. Hodges’ uncle and aunt, Jeff and Karen Bailey, several years ago.
- Sarah Kirk will also be opening her home at 9th and College. This high-Victorian home, long the residence of Sarah’s parents, Elmer and Virginia Kirk, was built ca. 1890 in the Queen Anne style, its exterior featuring a two-story rounded bay on the west side, an oriel window adjacent to a small balcony on the front, a wrap-around porch, and shingle siding on the second floor and gable.
- The home of Steve and Paige Gilliland at 9th and Boswell (pictured above) will also be on the tour. This Georgian Revival home was long the residence of two generations of the Grammer family. Built in 1915, it features a highly symmetrical façade that speaks to the early twentieth century’s shift away from the elaborate Victorian style seen in the Kirk home just behind it.
- The ”newest” historic home on tour will be Toni Huss’s home at 12th and Boswell. This bungalow from the 1930s has many features derived from Frank Lloyd Wright’s prairie style, with a low profile created through its deep eaves and its hipped roof and hip-roofed dormers that disguise the fact that the home has a second floor, as well as through the horizontal line on the broad front porch achieved by mounting half-columns on masonry pedestals connected by a knee wall. The upper window sashes with four vertical panes add to the prairie-style look.
Tickets, priced at $15 for one or $25 for two, are available at the Old Independence Regional Museum, Main Street Mercantile (formerly Simply Southern), as well as Citizens Bank’s St. Louis Street headquarters and First Community Bank’s Harrison Street headquarters and Main Street branch.
They may also be purchased on tour day at each of the homes.
To learn more about the Batesville Preservation Association, visit their Facebook page by clicking here.
Images via Batesville Preservation Association Facebook
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