Privateer Days Home Tour celebrates 10th anniversary

Privateer Days Holiday 2007 Christmas Homes Tour runs from 1-5 p.m. Dec 15.

Co-chair Brian Fralic says, “We have had so many beautiful homes in the past and this year we are thrilled to have some of the area’s finest homes.”

To celebrate the anniversary, Privateer Days is featuring two homes from the inaugural 1997 tour, Homelands, owned by Janet and Garnet Winchester and built in 1853, and a unique Saltbox style owned by Cathy Bowers and Gordon Marshall, originally purchased from Simeon Perkins in 1807 for seven pounds.

Also joining the tour will be Hunt’s Point Farmhouse, a beautiful restored vacation home once featured in Canadian House and Home, a Gothic Revival home built in 1860, now owned by Kim and Kevin Sinclair, Milton, a wonderful Cape Cod in Mersey Point, recently purchased by Jolanda and Peter Wezelenburg, another Saltbox from the 1930s, owned by Peter and Leslie Jones, and an executive home built by the son of the original founder of Mersey Paper Company, recently purchased by Noreen and Barry Tomalin.

Completing the tour is one of the oldest houses in Liverpool, Dexter’s Tavern, built in 1760.

Tea and entertainment will be provided at Rossignol Cultural Centre. The Kings Orange Rangers will be posted at each home.

Tickets may be purchased at Country Junction or reserved by leaving a message at the Privateer office - 354-4500. Tickets are $15 and all proceeds from this fundraiser go to Privateers Days 2008.