Utah Heritage Foundation  held its annual Historic Homes Tour on May 1, 2010, from 10 AM to 5 PM in the Federal Heights neighborhood of Salt Lake City.  We thank all of the tour sponsors, the homeowners, housechairs, docents, volunteers, and everyone bought tickets and came to see eight wonderful homes this year.

Utah Heritage Foundation held its annual Historic Homes Tour on May 2, 2009, from 10 AM to 5 PM in the Yalecrest neighborhood of Salt Lake City.  Yalecrest is among Salt Lake City's newer National Register-listed Historic District, formally receiving that designation in November 2007.   In 2000 and 2004, Utah Heritage Foundation held historic home tours in the Normandie Heights and Gilmer Park subdivisions, respectively, what became the Yalcrest Historic District, and in 2009, we featured the Yale and Upper Yale Park neighborhoods. 

Utah Heritage Foundation hosted Architecture's Tradition: The Avenues Homes Tour, our Annual Historic Building Tour on Saturday, April 19, 2008 from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Visitors saw how the styles of Utah’s architecture evolved from 1850 to 1950 in the historic Avenues neighborhood.

Tickets for the Tour cost $15 for UHF Members and $20 for the public. The tour was headquartered at the Fuller Paint Building, home of Big-D Construction Corporation at 404 West 400 South. Visitors drove to each place on the tour.

After the railroad came to Salt Lake City in the 1870s, the blocks just west of West Temple became the literal "gateway" to the of the city. Here ethnic and economic diversity belied the homogeneity of the residential east side. Colorful ethnic business—Greek coffeehouses or Japanese noodle shops served a population different from that of the mainstream. In the same way, today you see sharp contrasts of the rich historic fabric of industrial complexes like the Ford Motor Company or the Firestone Building sit kitty- corner to new hotels. Downtown has always been distinguished by the the mix of old and the new, but nowhere in a more authentic and textured mix than on its West side.

On Saturday, September 16, 2006, our tour visited seven homes in the Capitol Hill, Federal Heights, and Yalecrest neighborhoods of Salt Lake City, all which exhibited important principles of compatible design.  Several of the homes were eventually featured in our 2008 book Celebrating Compatible Design: Creating New Spaces in Historic Homes.

Salt Lake City's historic neighborhoods have seen a resurgence of popularity over the last several years. People are returning to the city—recognizing the value of location, architecture, and the scale of walkability that can be found in older neighborhoods.