It’s tour time for architecture, homes, hoods
It’s tour time. Mark your calendars.
Architecture tour
The American Institute of Architects Central Oklahoma Chapter will present the 17th annual Architectural Tour from noon to 5 p.m. April 14. The self-guided, eightstop tour includes residences and commercial buildings.
Tickets are available online and at select outlets. Tickets are $20 in advance and $25 the day of the tour. For more information, go to www. aiacoc.org. Tour stops are:
323, designed by Gardner Architects, 323 NW 9, owned by Jeremy Gardner; Classen29, designed by Common Works Architects, 1419 NW 29, owned by Adriana Gonzalez; Squirrel Park, designed by Allford Hall Monaghan Morris, 1226 NW 32; 415 E Hill St., designed by Smith Design Co., home of Deatschwerks, a manufacturer of high-performance automotive fuel systems.
Also, Jones Residence, designed by Gardner Architects, 1120 Glenwood Ave. Nichols Hills, rehabilitation of a late-1940s Art Deco home; Saxum at The Heritage, designed by HSE Architects, 621 N Robinson Ave.; Sundial Residence, designed and built in 1919 with architect John Eberson by owners John and Katherine Sinopolous, 4000 N Kelley Ave.; M. Dewayne Andrews Academic Office Tower, now home of the University of Oklahoma College of Medicine, designed by Bockus Payne Architecture, 800 Stanton L. Young Blvd.
Quail Creek
The third annual Quail Creek Home Tour will be April 21, featuring three homes in South Quail Creek and three homes in North Quail Creek.
The following tickets are offered:
• Regular tour, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.: $15. Fitness walking tour: meet at Quail Creek Golf and Country Club at 10:30 a.m.
• Twilight tour, regular tour plus 6 to 8 p.m. bonus tour with cocktails and light appetizers: $30.
Ticket sales support Quail Creek beautification. For more information or to buy tickets, go to www.quailcreek.org.
The Quail Creek Home Tour is sponsored by Quick Print, Sonic, The Well, Sierra Snowden Realty, Fabrics Unlimited, GBH Designs and Quail Creek Bank. Last year, the tour raised $40,000 for neighborhood beautification.
Parade of Homes
The Parade of Homes Spring Festival will be April 27-29 and May 4-6, presented by the Central Oklahoma Home Builders Association. New houses will be open free to the public from 1 to 7 p.m. each day.
Sponsors include Oklahoma Natural Gas Co., Red Valley Landscape Construction, SWM & Sons Homes, Two Structures Homes, McCaleb Homes, and Sun Custom Homes.
Symphony Show House
The 45th Symphony Show House is “a jewel of European Charm” in the Dutch Forest neighborhood of wooded northeast Oklahoma City.
Local interiors designers will transform the empty space into the Estate in Dutch Forest for the annual fundraiser, May 5-20, for the Oklahoma City Orchestra League and its music education programs. Judy Austin and Jane Krizer are co-chairmen.
The 19-room, 6,451-square-foot house at 3115 Dutch Forest Lane, northeast of Bryant Avenue and NE 122, was custom built in 1994 on 1.67 acres.
The French-style home has a kitchen that is a chef’s paradise, a master bedroom with a spalike bath and private patio, and a family area with a sun room overlooking a patio with a pergola covered in wisteria. For more information, go to www. okcorchestraleague.org.
Miller in May
Miller in May will include the Miller by Moonlight Home & Garden Tour May 19-20, although details are still being worked out.
The historic Miller neighborhood, platted just before statehood and developed mostly in the 1920s and 1930s by George Miller, is bounded by NW 10 to the south, NW 16 to the north, N May Avenue to the west and N Villa Avenue to the east.
The entire neighborhood is on the National Register of Historic Places. Proceeds from the annual tour benefit numerous projects, such as the installation of decorative street lamps and beautification of medians to enhance quality of living and maintain the area’s historic integrity.