Page 11 - demo

streets to Park Avenue on last year’s tour, the fine homes on St.
Paul Boulevard were followed by more modest but architecturally
detailed houses on the side streets.
As the farms and orchards sold their lands, subdivisions were filled
almost as quickly as they could be built. Early advertisements from
the time period described future streets as “cut through a field of
oats” and among “picturesque woods” to entice city residents to
consider life in the suburbs.

You will still see picturesque woods on this tour, as the ravines
leading to the Genesee River are designated as forever wild. The
houses fall in two categories: the grand houses on the Boulevard,
and the charming homes on the Winona Woods streets. You’ll
enjoy a grandiose Colonial Revival, an amazing Tudor Revival
designed by Ward Wellington Ward, and a fine home that hides a
“secret”—a speakeasy style bar room from Prohibition Days. The
homes on the side streets including entrancing bungalows, plus a
“storybook style” house that w ill have you swearing you’ve been
magically transported to Paris. Gardens on this tour will be quite
enjoyable—with one spectacular sunken garden stealing the show.

Continued on the following page.

We are grateful to the major House and Garden Tour Sponsors:

Platinum Sponsor:

Silver Sponsor: Copper Sponsor: Ticket Sales Sponsor:
Look for our advertising
sponsors in the House
Tour Ticket booklet.

LANDMARKS | SUMMER 2019 11