Join Us For-Alameda Architectural Preservation Society's-Victorian Open Houses

If the $44.00 ticket price is too steep see above to become a volunteer docent, with some great benefits!
If you volunteer at the Event let me know in the comments. If you do an afternoon shift you can join the Meetup in the morning.

Heritage & Victorian Architecture Tour, - around the City of Alameda's, Franklin Park (Known as the Bronze Coast!) For more details about the tour and to buy a ticket, click this link. (There is a seven day, before the Event refund policy.
The Bronze Coast is the location for this years Event.
Let's get together and visit the City of Alameda and the Alameda Architectural Preservation Society's (AAPS), 52st annual "Legacy Open House Tour".
Join our Meetup group, for this special event. Last year's Alameda tour was terrific, the group had a great time. (You must buy a ticket to attend though.)
The AAPS will have a location in lovely Franklin Park, next to the Bronze Coast house locations, with seating and an outdoor cafe with free coffee and cookies and cute souvenirs.

There will be seven houses open for interior tours.
Alameda, with its beautiful architecture and tree-lined streets is truly one of the most unique places to live in the Bay Area. Visit, take the tour, and find out for yourself. (Personally I get the feeling when I'm in Alameda of a really old timey place. There's a real sense of community there which I'm sure you will experience during the tour.)

For some background:
There are five basic Victorian styles:

1. Flat front Italianate- (earliest Victorians). (French 2nd Empire appear)
2. Italianate with slanted bay windows.
3. San Francisco Stick Style (also called East Lake). Simpler square bay windows now used. Overall much more elaborate decoration, ornament and gingerbread used.
4. Queen Anne Tower House&Witches Cap, with angled or rounded bay windows & front gable
5. Queen Anne Row House, 1, 1-1/2 or two stories. Large front gable. Possibly and likely a moongate entry.

Features & "Gingerbread"
Type of Entry (maybe a rounded or partial Moongate entry as above)-
Decorative Ironwork- A low fence in front, or a crown at the top.
Floral Decor-Garlands (one of many types of decorations known as *"Gingerbread")
Fish scale and/or Diamond shingles-
Towers & Witch's Cap-
Stained Glass or Beveled Glass-
Carvings of grotesque faces-
Sunbursts- often painted gold, half or full.
Gables (Queen Anne's) in a variety of material- (mainly redwood)
Newel Posts at the end of railings and Finials on Tower tops and roof peaks.
Come and see these flamboyant creations from yesteryear!