THE BISBEE WOMAN’S CLUB INVITES YOU TO THEIR 42ND ANNUAL HOME TOUR
The Bisbee Woman’s Club will present their 42nd Annual Home Tour & Art Auction on Friday and Saturday, November 27 & 28, the days following Thanksgiving. All proceeds from the fundraisers benefit local students seeking higher and continuing education, community individuals and groups with ideas to make Bisbee better, and also help to maintain the 1902 BWC Clubhouse.
Home base for this year’s events is the Serbian Hall, an authentic piece of Bisbee’s immigrant mining history that dates to 1939. (Wait until you see the piano lounge!) Entry is free from 10-4 each day: home tour tickets, cash and carry items, and raffle tickets can be purchased, and visitors are welcomed to place silent bids for the spectacular art donated by artists from Bisbee and beyond. Bids are finalized and the winners revealed beginning at 4:45 p.m. on Saturday; you must be present to win.
Tour tickets have been held at $20 per person for another year and will be sold beginning Monday, October 26th. This year’s roster of homes will remind you that a book can’t be judged by its cover…because the same goes for houses! Your first impression might be that a home is traditional or small, but when you’re invited inside, a world of design, art, and history opens up.
Like a book, every home has a story to tell, and patrons will have the opportunity to hear them all from each property’s docent team. Some of what you’ll see this year: the oldest building was built in 1895; another was an early Western Union telegraph office. You’ll see an intentionally “crashed” airplane, rare American furniture from the 1860s, a California Craftsman and an Art Deco property, a jewelbox of a midcentury modern interior, and a former home leased to miners which was picked up and moved from the Lowell area (the site of today’s Lavender Pit strip mine).
The Serbian Hall is located at 216 Park Avenue in Bisbee. Children older than 13 are welcomed but require their own ticket. No dogs or photography inside buildings at the request of property owners. You’ll need a car to tour all the properties, which are clustered in the neighborhoods of Warren, Bakerville, and Old Bisbee, but the farthest apart are less than 5 miles from each other.
Purchase tickets at Bisbee Books & Music, On Consignment In Bisbee, and Sorted Past Antiques & Oddities after October 26th; online tickets will also be available at the link above.
