Join Oakland Heritage Alliance in Seeing San Antonio Anew, Sunday, October 28, 2007 from 1:00 to 5:30 pm. It's a wonderful opportunity to experience a part of Oakland that is rarely on tour. The San Antonio Hills Neighborhood Association joins OHA in welcoming visitors to what were once the separate settlements of San Antonio and Clinton.

Would you like to see grand Victorians, complete with elaborate woodwork, marble fireplaces, stained glass, flashed glass, and conical towers? On Sunday, October 28, you will see several of these beauties. The tour also features a small cottage with unusual plasterwork installed by Portuguese craftsmen, a pair of cottages with original wood wainscoting and craftsman-style brick chimneys. There's a charming Italianate house with pocket doors and stenciled floors. Also featured is a sweet craftsman-style house that was moved into the neighborhood and then lovingly restored. And, you won't want to miss the grand Albert Farr-designed house that still retains many of its interior features.

 

The tour is self-guided and although there is hilly terrain, there is plentiful on-street parking.

The self-guided 10-home tour starts at 2004 10th Avenue (at East 20th St.) For information, call 510-763-9218 or see www.oaklandheritage.org. $25 OHA members; nonmembers $30 advance purchase,  $35 day of tour.

Make a day of it and combine the tour with Day of the Dead festivities on International Blvd.!