The tour has become an annual tradition in the city and is the perfect way to welcome in the holiday season. The popular Candlelight Tour will be held on Saturday, the 6th, from 4 to 8 p.m. The Sunday Afternoon Tour will be held on the 7th from 1 to 5 p.m. with a pre-tour Holiday Brunch (11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.) offered at the Wamsutta Club, 427 County Street, New Bedford, tour headquarters. Brunch reservations ($15) are recommended (508-997-7431). A Holiday Raffle of fine gifts and art work donated by local merchants and artists will be held at the Club during tour hours.
Discounted advance tickets ($18 non-members; $16 Society members) will go on sale mid-November at the following locations:
- Elaine's at the Black Whale, New York Shoe Repair (for credit card sales), The Surrey Shoppe, Periwinkles, Baker Books, Davoll's General Store, The Ultimate Touch, The Woodhouse Shop, Roseland Nursery and the Marion General Store.
- At the door ALL tickets will be $22.
Press Release for Immediate Release: ### SAVE THE DATES! Be sure to calendar the New Bedford Preservation Society's 17th Annual Holiday House Tour, to be held this year December 6 and 7. The tour has become an annual tradition in the city and is the perfect way to welcome in the holiday season. The popular Candlelight Tour will be held on Saturday, the 6th, from 4 to 8 p.m. The Sunday Afternoon Tour will be held on the 7th from 1 to 5 p.m. with a pre-tour Holiday Brunch (11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.) offered at the Wamsutta Club, 427 County Street, New Bedford, tour headquarters. Brunch reservations ($15) are recommended (508-997-7431). A Holiday Raffle of fine gifts and art work donated by local merchants and artists will be held at the Club during tour hours. Discounted advance tickets ($18 non-members; $16 Society members) will go on sale mid-November at the following locations: Elaine's at the Black Whale, New York Shoe Repair (for credit card sales), The Surrey Shoppe, Periwinkles, Baker Books, Davoll's General Store, The Ultimate Touch, The Woodhouse Shop, Roseland Nursery and the Marion General Store. At the door ALL tickets will be $22. The tour will feature historic homes in the city's West of County Street neighborhood, all decked out for the holidays. The Rotch-Jones-Duff House and Garden Museum will collaborate with the Preservation Society this year to provide guests with a special visit to this beautifully restored mansion, where special holiday collections will be on display, as well as the restored "Carpenter's Son" painting, recently returned to the parlors at RJD.
The annual holiday house tour is the society's signature fund-raising event. All proceeds will benefit the work of the society, a non-profit organization dedicated to the preservation and protection of historic New Bedford. To those ends, the Society has undertaken several major projects including historical building markers, bi-annual historic house tours, historical cemetery tours, summer walking tours, a tree-planting program (Re-Leaf), the publication of self-guided walking tour brochures, lectures, and other efforts.
For further information and to learn more about the society's upcoming events, please call the New Bedford Preservation Society office (388 County Street, New Bedford) at 508-997-6425 or visit www.nbpreservationsociety.org.