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Quick! Fall into Historic Home Tours
November/December 2023
Two historic home tours in San Diego on November 4 and 11, 2023 will entice you to get out and enjoy fine architecture and history in lovely, old neighborhoods.
Saturday, November 4, noon-4pm
Mission Hills Heritage’s annual home tour is spotlighting three homes designed by William Templeton Johnson, one of San Diego’s leading 20th-century architects. Two of these homes represent Johnson arguably in his prime, during the 1920s. A third is one of his own homes, and where he died in 1957.
Visit the Mission Hills Heritage website for info and to purchase tickets.
 La Mesa’s 1893 Porter House, home for over a century to the influential, civic-minded Porter family, will be open on the November 11 tour. You’re also invited inside the “preserved-in-time” art studio of noted sculptor James Tank Porter. |
 This cutting-edge, 1912 Prairie Style home in La Mesa, the Todd House, is associated with the family who helped establish the annual Easter Sunrise services at Mt. Nebo’s Prospect Park. |
Saturday, November 11, 9am-3pm
La Mesa History Center’s annual home tour “Preservation Heroes” highlights a mix of eclectic designs in the hills surrounding downtown. Homes in the Folk Victorian, Craftsman, Prairie School, Spanish Eclectic, and Italianate Revival styles (1893-1938) will be open in the Mt. Nebo, Boulder Heights, and Porter Hill neighborhoods. In addition to portraying La Mesa’s early architectural evolution, guests will learn about some of the city’s most prominent and fascinating families and individuals. Also on the tour is St. Martin of Tours Catholic Church, built in 1921.
Tickets are available online; tickets ordered by mail must be sent by November 8. For questions, email or call Jim Newland at newljones@cox.net; (619) 244-7931.
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