Take a Walking Tour of Tourison

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Dates:May 10, 2025
Meets:Sa from 1:00 PM to 3:30 PM
Location:Meet outside at Lovett Library, 6945 Germantown Ave.
Cost: $34.00

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East Mt. Airy has a fascinating and little known history, and many fabulous houses. Who built and designed these houses, and created most of what we now know as East Mt. Airy? Native son Ashton Tourison, Sr. was a builder with strong principles and a respect for beauty, community and integrity. He and his family created stunning residential architecture and contributed to Mt. Airy's institutional architecture. Their legacy has lasted more than 100 years. Please join us as we journey back in time to circa 1905! Elise Rivers created and researched with the support of Historic Germantown.

Notes:

Optional $20 fee payable to instructor for a guidebook and a video with much more information. All proceeds from sale of the guidebook donated to Historic Germantown.
Fee: $34.00

Fee Breakdown

Category Description Amount
Course Fee (Basic)Course Fee$ 34.00
Optional FeeDonation (optional)$ 0.00

Meet outside at Lovett Library, 6945 Germantown Ave.

Parking is available on local streets and in the Acme lot at Germantown & Sedgwick.

Elise Rivers

Esq., MAc, has practiced holistic medicine for more than twenty years and is the founder of the Northwest Center for Food As Medicine, teaching people how to prevent and reverse the chronic diseases of our time. Learning from renowned functional medicine doctors, she has studied the benefits of plant-based nutrition since 2013, and is certified by Cornell University's program in plant-based nutrition. TOUR OF TOURISON: has worked in the field of historic preservation as Assistant Director of Preservation Worcester in Massachusetts and Executive Director of Landmark West, an historic preservation non-profit advocating for the Upper West Side of Manhattan. Her passion for beauty in architecture has never waned, and she was inspired to put together this walking tour, after living in, and loving, her own Tourison home.

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