{"id":6182,"date":"2026-05-11T14:26:41","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T13:26:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/historictakoma.org\/?p=6182"},"modified":"2026-06-02T19:09:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T18:09:14","slug":"2026-house-and-garden-tour-recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/historictakoma.org\/?p=6182","title":{"rendered":"2026 House and Garden Tour Recap"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-cover is-light\" style=\"min-height:97px;aspect-ratio:unset;\"><span aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-cover__background has-background-dim-100 has-background-dim\" style=\"background-color:#ffffff\"><\/span><div class=\"wp-block-cover__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-cover-is-layout-flow\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center has-luminous-vivid-amber-background-color has-background\" id=\"block-b5a91d9f-a8b0-4eff-bf00-d4845df2c2e8\">2026 Takoma Park House and Garden Tour<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:31px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thank you to the over 200 attendees of this year&#8217;s Takoma Park House and Garden Tour, <em>Suburb in the City.<\/em> Your ticket purchases, along with the contributions of our Sponsors, Donors, and Contributors, help make our work to preserve, protect, and share the history and culture of the Takoma Park community possible. The <strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\"><a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1mA3fQShYNAfklFUX85KJcyD3WIAd4aon\/view?usp=drive_link\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1mA3fQShYNAfklFUX85KJcyD3WIAd4aon\/view?usp=drive_link\">tour brochure<\/a> <\/mark><\/strong>is now available for viewing and downloading.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:29px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-5 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1920\" height=\"2560\" data-id=\"6225\" src=\"https:\/\/historictakoma.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG_8351-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6225\" 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class=\"alignleft size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"694\" src=\"https:\/\/historictakoma.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG_8369-1-1024x694.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6218\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.4755254781636222;width:265px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/historictakoma.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG_8369-1-1024x694.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/historictakoma.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG_8369-1-300x203.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/historictakoma.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG_8369-1-768x521.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/historictakoma.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG_8369-1-1536x1041.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/historictakoma.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG_8369-1-2048x1388.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Each year John Hume of <em>Sligo Creek Tile Works<\/em> designs, produces, and contributes a commemorative tile for the tour site hosts. Thank you for you continued support, John!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:17px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\">Our special thanks to those who supported the Tour through donations and purchases of ads in the Tour Brochure<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Sponsors<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table class=\"has-fixed-layout\"><tbody><tr><td>Broadhurst Architects, Inc.<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Chris Brown\/Takoma BevCo<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>City of Takoma Park<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Janet &amp; Jim Douglas<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Judy Kogod, Perennial Real Estate<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Jennifer Martin<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Lorraine Pearsall and Paul Chrostowski<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Sangfroid Distilling, LLC<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Strawberry Fields, LLC<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Takoma Park Silver Spring Food Co-operative<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Elizabeth Thornhill<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Tillerman Gardens, LLC<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Donors<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table class=\"has-fixed-layout\"><tbody><tr><td>The F.A. Bartlett Tree Expert Company<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>BFM Architecture, Inc.<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>B.M.C. Clower Heating &amp; Air Conditioning<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Busboys and Poets<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Casey Trees<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Heritage Building and Renovation, Inc.<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Just That Simple<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>The Maplesden Group of Samson Properties<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Residential Engineering Solutions<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Sashman DC<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Studio d Architecture and Design<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Vitullo Architecture Studio, PC<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>W.H. Winegar &amp; Son, Inc. Plumbing and Heating<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Contributors<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table class=\"has-fixed-layout\"><tbody><tr><td>Tom Brune<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Ashley Flory<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Joan Francis<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Diana Kohn<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Loretta Neumann<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Sam Sturgis<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Richard and Laurie O&#8217;Connor<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>VFW Post 350<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Special thanks to the long time support of the Tour by Larry Ravitz and Marika Partridge<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/historictakoma.org\/?page_id=1247\" target=\"_blank\">See Past Features<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/historictakoma.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/historictakoma.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/historictakoma.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/historictakoma.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/historictakoma.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6182"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/historictakoma.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6236,"href":"https:\/\/historictakoma.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6182\/revisions\/6236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/historictakoma.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/historictakoma.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/historictakoma.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}