36th Annual Home Tour & Street Fair
Time To Tour Beautiful Houses & Celebrate All Things Park Hill
By Kate Sultan & Nina Kuhl
The 36th Annual Park Hill Home Tour & Street Fair is just around the corner. On Sunday, Sept. 28, view five lovely homes and a beautiful historic school, and enjoy food, vendors and festivities on Forest Parkway from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. For details on location and ticketing, please go to parkhillhometour.org.
From an 1890’s farmhouse to a classic Tudor to modern architecture, this year’s Home Tour represents 120 years of Park Hill’s diverse architecture. Tour five homes and the historic Landmark Smiley Building. Inside, beginning on page 10, take a sneak peak of the homes and campus featured on this year’s Tour, and read a bit about their owners, architecture, designs and special features.
Buy your tickets in advance at the following locations: Modern Bungalow, Park Hill Community Bookstore, Spinelli’s Market, Cake Crumbs and Park Hill Library. Tickets are also available online at parkhillhometour.org or at any King Soopers through TicketsWest.
Tickets are $15 for adults, $10 for seniors, and $5 for children. Tickets are available the day of the event on the Street Fair on Forest Parkway or at any of the homes on the Home Tour for an additional $5.
More than 120 volunteers are still needed for the day of the event, so please consider supporting your neighborhood by helping out. Home Tour docents are needed for shifts from 11 am until 2 p.m. and from 2 p.m. until 5 p.m.
Street Fair To Feed, Entertain, Be Green
That day, plan to spend time at the Street Fair, eating, listening to great music, browsing the goods and wares, getting the kids’ faces painted, checking out great old cars, and sharing time with neighbors.
In addition to the Home Tour, three local bands will be providing music: Hello Bourbon (11 a.m. to 1 p.m.), Call Me Home (1 p.m. to 3 p.m.) and The Mossgatherers (3 p.m. to 5 p.m.)
Kids will have bouncy entertainment, face painting, story-time courtesy of the Park Hill Library and lots of sweet treats.
And, don’t forget the classic cars – always a crowd pleaser. Lyle Hansen and Shelley Townsend will bring their club members, along with their cars, on display on the west side of Forest Parkway between 19th and 17th Streets.
The east side of the street will have vendors from Montview all the way down to 17th Avenue. More than 100 vendors have signed up, and as of this writing only seven spots are still available. Included are a wide assortment of artists and handmade goods, as well as kid-related, health-related, home-related and animal-related goods and services.
And then there is the food … a great assortment of vendors will be cooking up a storm this year … Oblio’s Pizza, JRs Smokehouse, Yatai Sushi, Spicy Balls & Things, Pierogies Factory, Brats & Dogs, Nicky’s Quickies, Taste of Texas BBQ, EIS Gelato, Cake Crumbs, Kettle Korn, PeteyBird Ice Cream, Maui/Wowi, Crepes A GoGo and a new Park Hill business – Denver Dessert Waffles.
The plan this year is to have a zero waste event. All food trucks will be using compostable supplies and compost, recycle and trash bins will be available. Please remember: Pick the right bin for your disposable items, so at the end of the day all that will be left is a neat and clean Forest Parkway, and a happy Mother Earth.
Finally, sponsor SolaRover will be powering the food trucks and bands with their solar powered generators. No noise, no fumes … just plenty of sun-harnessed power.
Come one, come all and come hungry!
The Street Fair also needs volunteers to help out during various shifts between 8 a.m. until about 5:30 p.m. Volunteers will receive a free ticket to attend the tour. If you’re interested, please contact Volunteer Coordinator Paula Wales @ pkwales@gmail.com
The Home Tour & Street Fair would not be possible without the support from local sponsors. Their support helps pay the many expenses that are incurred to put on this community event.
Nina Kuhl is this year’s Home Tour Chair. Nina can be reached at kuhlnina@yahoo.com or 303-913-5858. Kate Sultan & Lynn Maedel are this year’s Street Fair Coordinators. Kate can be reached at krsultan@comcast.net or 303-300-3332. Lynn can be reached at Lynnmaedel@cacmle.org or 303-300-3332.
Home Tour & Street Fair Sponsors
Gold Sponsors
• Ed Moore Florist
• Mather Architectural Design LLC
• Gerretson Realty Inc
• Gerwin Group, Kentwood Cherry Creek
• Local Agents from Cherry Creek Properties, LLC
Silver Sponsors
• Modern Bungalow
• Rager Design Works
• Denver Energy Challenge
• Anastasia Williamson, Kentwood City Properties
• Leah Johnson, Megastar Financial Corp
• SolaRover