By Michaela Bishop
Northeast News
October 14, 2015

This upcoming Saturday, Oct. 17, the Northeast community will be able to go on field trip through time and visit six historic homes in the Northeast. All of the properties were built in the Northeast between 1895-1910.

One of the historic structures the Historic Homes Tour will include is the Kansas City Museum. The tour also highlights several historical homes, two of which located on Indiana Avenue and four on Gladstone Boulevard.

“We want to enlighten the community and surrounding community’s around the Northeast and show all the architecture we have,” Joy Brandon, director of Archieve and Research for the Northeast Kansas City Historical Society, said. “We want to draw people into the neighborhood that would never come.”

Anyone going on the tour will have the opportunity to see the first floor and outside architecture of each home. Visitors will also be able to tour the second floor of one of the homes. The Historic Homes Tour will be conducted by docents, volunteers who sign-up to give the tours to the community.

This year the Northeast Kansas City Historical Society has 120 docents to give tours and will be able to have one docent in each room. Tours will be held from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. An extra hour was added because of the extra home added onto the list.

“Some want to walk through quickly, some want to look at how the new owners made the home livable,” Brandon said.

Children 12-years-old and under get in for free and tickets are $15 for adults. Tickets are available for purchase online at www.nekchs.com or at the welcome tent near the Museum on the day of the tour. The sales tent for advanced ticket pick-up and day-of ticket sales will be set-up on the lawn across the street facing the Kansas City Museum.