The Hancock-Eldridge House, built for Americus’ first newspaper publisher, and 45 other historic homes and sites will be open for tours during the Georgia Trust for Historic Preservation’s Fall Ramble in Americus, Oct. 11-13.
The Hancock-Eldridge House, built for Americus’ first newspaper publisher, and 45 other historic homes and sites will be open for tours during the Georgia Trust for Historic Preservation’s Fall Ramble in Americus, Oct. 11-13.
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This Victorian cottage is among the historic sites open for tour during the Fall Ramble.
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The Eldridge-Ferguson House was built by Dr. E. J. Eldridge, a veteran of the Crimean War and Baltimore physician.
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Included in the Fall Ramble is The Kinnebrew House.
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Chokee Ranch will be part of the Fall Ramble on Sunday, Oct. 13.
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The Kinnamon-Hale House, a c. 1915 Craftsman style house, contains six generations of family furnishings, artwork and local memorabilia.
More than 45 historic homes and sites in Americus and Sumter County will be open for tours during the Georgia Trust for Historic Preservation’s Fall Ramble on Oct. 11-13. The event will offer visitors and residents a rare opportunity to explore private homes not usually open to the public and go behind the scenes of historically significant sites.
On Friday, “ramblers” will tour a wide variety of architectural styles spanning the early 19th and 20th centuries including the Eldridge-Ferguson House, a Second Empire style house that was built in 1867 for a wealthy physician from Baltimore and whose descendants occupied it for more than a century; the Shaw-Heys House, built in 1881 for prominent haberdasher John R. Shaw as a gift to his bride Kate Felder, a sister of the mayor; and a historic downtown loft that was recently renovated by Charles Crisp.
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