{"id":6182,"date":"2026-05-11T14:26:41","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T13:26:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/historictakoma.org\/?p=6182"},"modified":"2026-05-13T13:53:35","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T12:53:35","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 the contributions of our Supporters and Donors, help make our work to preserve, project, 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 the tour Supporters and Donors<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Tour Supporters<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table class=\"has-fixed-layout\"><tbody><tr><td>B.M.C. Clower Heating &amp; Air Conditioning<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Bennett Frank McCarthy Architects<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Broadhurst<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Busboys and Poets<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Casey Trees<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Chris Brown<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>City of Takoma Park<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Colonel Josh Handyman Service<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>David Maplesden\/Metro Group Properties LLC<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Heritage Building and Renovation, Inc.<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Judy Kogod, Perennial Real Estate<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Residential Engineering Solutions<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Sangfroid Distilling<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Strawberry Fields, LLC<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Studio d<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Takoma Park Silver Spring Coop<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Tillerman Gardens<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>The F.A. Bartlett Tree Expert Company<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Vitullo Architecture Studio<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>VFW Post 350<\/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>Donors<\/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>Richard and Laurie O&#8217;Connor<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Janet &amp; Jim Douglas<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Ashley Flory<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Joan Francis<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Jennifer Martin<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Lorraine Pearsall and Paul Chrostowski<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Elizabeth Thornhill<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\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":10,"href":"https:\/\/historictakoma.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6231,"href":"https:\/\/historictakoma.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6182\/revisions\/6231"}],"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}]}}