It’s been a long time since we went on a neighborhood home tour. The community in which I live has a tremendous variety of home styles, which is one of the things I love about this area. I wonder if back in the day (90-100+ years ago) if the neighborhood covenants here dictated that your home could not be too similar to another one in the community, or if that was just an understood rule. In any case, I love how very different all the homes are. Let’s start our tour with some of the many Tudor homes I saw today.
There are so many different ways to build a Tudor-style home. Most of the Tudor homes I saw were quite large. This one felt more cottagey. Notice the chimney pots and the decorative panels beneath the upstairs windows. Cute front door!
It’s been raining a lot over the past few days, including yesterday, so a lot of the roofs may appear wet in these pictures.
Do you prefer the look of a Tudor home with a medium brown color for the half-timbering, as seen above, or do you like a darker brown as shown on the home below?
Some of the Tudor homes in my area have beautiful slate roofs.
The Tudor home next door to me has this type of roof. I love how it looks!
Another beautiful Tudor home that I saw during my drive today…very stately!
Another beautiful Tudor with a lot of half-timbering…
Would this home be considered Tudor style? The stone/rock is so pretty! This home appears to be 4 stories; that’s a big house! I would love to see the inside. It feels like it belongs in Europe, maybe Germany.
What style would you call this design?
I’ve actually been inside this home before. It was on the market several years back during a time when I was visiting family in the area. I contacted the agent to see it since I was thinking of buying a home here one day. It has a truly unique interior, and I loved how it kinda rambled a bit upstairs. I love homes that have winding halls that lead off to rooms that almost feel hidden. As I recall, there was a grand piano in the large, circular room seen on the left side. The house has been back on the market and sold once more since the time I toured it.
This home is currently listed for sale. It backs right up to a scenic country club.
Another beautiful home—love all the windows!
This home was available to tour during a local Christmas home tour in 2024, so I was able to go inside. The owners were super nice! They’ve beautifully updated and restored the interior, and it was a delight to tour! I love those quarter-round windows in the attic rooms on either end of the home!
This home is one of the few homes in this area that’s painted a bright color. It works for this Craftsman-style home, though. I love all those windows—the more windows a home has, the more I like it!
A few of the streets in this area are finished with old brick pavers. I loved how they sounded as I drove over them.
Another beautiful, traditional style home…
I saw the end of this home before I saw its front. Love the shape of the Dutch Colonial roof.
Here’s a view of the front, along with the other end of this home. Why don’t they build homes like this anymore‽ I love the sunroom on one end and the sunporch on the other end.
A front view…
This home appears to be newer, doesn’t it?
As I drove down this street, I saw something unusual. Do you see it…there in the tree?
There are a lot of albino/white squirrels here in the Dayton, Ohio area. I’ve seen them in the parks, playing in the grass at the library, and now in a neighborhood. There must be quite a few here since I see them in so many places.
This home is especially pretty during the summer. It has beautiful perennial gardens that spring to life. I love driving by this home all spring and summer to see what’s blooming. The picket fence is perfect with the beautiful gardens!
Another pretty home—I need to come back and share this tour again in the spring, although the nice thing about doing it now is it’s easier to see the homes since the trees are still bare.
Another home with a pretty sunporch. Whenever I see homes with a sunporch over the garage or a room below, it reminds me of the Petersons’ home in the movie, The ‘Burbs.
This home was available to purchase a few years back. I really liked the kitchen.
Another great home…
See what I mean about how the homes are all so different in their design! Love that so much!
I love symmetry in the design of a home! Love the matching porches on either end and those pretty eyebrow windows!
Hope you enjoyed this little tour of some of the beautiful old homes in this area.
Loved the tour – wonderful variety pf gorgeous home. I believe the bright blue home is Craftsman style, not Victorian.
Thanks, I’ll change that in the post. It doesn’t have the ornate decorative touches, so I’m sure you’re right. Thanks, Lorie!
Really enjoyed the home tour- They are absolutely beautiful ! Thank you !
So glad to hear that! I’ll do another one this spring, everything is so beautiful when the trees fill out!
I would have loved to live in one of those beautiful large homes. I grew up in a craftsman style home in Oregon. My father discovered papers in the attic that it was actually a “kit home” style that was purchased from Montgomery Wards (a catalogue). That was an interesting discovery. But alas here in S. Califonia most homes are stucco…..any brick or stone additions are very spendy. So we bloom where we are planted! Maybe my heavenly home will have some stone accents!
That is so awesome, Toni! I’m so glad the previous owners left those behind for other owners to find.
Loved the Tour!
I’ll take the Colonial with the white picket fence! thanks
Those white picket fences get me every time!
All beautiful!! I like the windows house too. I’d love to find a house that has the screened sun room. My kitty would probably never leave it. ♥
Continue having fun!
Wendy
For sure! I love all those windows!
What beautiful homes! I have always believed that homes built prior to WWII had more character. Craftsman is my favorite but I would take any of the old styles.
They def seem to in these older neighborhoods. I love riding through the neighborhoods, ogling the houses and dreaming about how they must look inside.
Oh, Susan! I loved this post! Just returned from a wonderful vacation to Orlando – wasn’t so nice coming back to more snow, though. Thx for sharing all those incredibly GORGEOUS homes. Let me know if you ever get wind of a spring home tour – I would drive 1.5 hours to it for sure to see some of those pretties.
I hope you had perfect weather, Michele! It’s been raining and raining here. I wish they would have a spring home tour. Tours around here are iffy. For example, when I bought my ticket for the Christmas home tour in 2024, when we arrived we were told one of the homes had backed out. I think there were only 5 houses on the tour to start with, and the ticket wasn’t cheap. I remember it was a lot more expensive than the ticket is for the Christmas Home Tour I always go on in Georgia, and I’ve never seen a home back out of that tour. I think the Georgia tours are managed/run a lot better there. So the cost to see each house was pretty high since there were only 4 houses on the tour in 2024.
The next year, they canceled the tour, probably because they couldn’t get enough houses to participate. So I don’t know why it’s like that here.
The Georgia has been going on for many more years, I thnk the one here just started a few years back…don’t remember exactly when. Anyway, the Georgia tour I always go on is very, very well attended. Some of the house have lines of 10-20 people in them, waiting to get inside. I didn’t see that many people on the 2024 tour here when I took it. I didn’t buy a ticket in 2025 since the experience in 2024 was a little disappointing with one house backing out. Maybe others felt the same way. We did have some terrible weather here this year, I’m sure that has an impact, too.
Gorgeous! Thanks for taking us along! I love the rolling slopes in your neighborhood, and yes, all those Tudor homes. I’ve always loved them, and actually got to live in one for a few years in Minneapolis. If you do a spring tour, I’ll be right here riding along!
Thanks, Barbara! I will def do one of those, although I’m headed back to Georgia soon. Maybe I can do a late spring or early summer one.
Beautiful homes. You live in a lovely neighborhood. I would enjoy a nice stroll aorund the neighborhood. Thanks.
It is a lovely area to walk. Many of the streets are tree-lined and it’s wonderful to walk in the spring and summer.
Beautiful homes! I love a Tudor style home and so did my mom. Alas, neither of us got one. Thanks for sharing. Looking forward to a spring tour.
Thanks, Lynda! Looking forward to sharing one.
What fun this tour of beautiful homes was. Thank you Susan!
Thanks, Vikki! ♥
O, girl…you “pulled my heart strings” on this one…lived over 40 years in our classic 1937 English Tudor home…stone & brick w/classic details… Fell in love moment we saw it…alas, got t/b “too much” upkeep for my DIY hubs. I miss it still… Loved the tour!!!! franki
Wow! 40 years! I love that, Franki! It must have been so hard to move after being there that long. Yeah, upkeep on older homes is a lot, I know.
I, too, love love love driving around and looking at homes. I would love to see those same homes in July when their Landscaping is at a peak. I’m sure the yards and beds are just stunning
I will def post another tour this spring or summer. The homes may be a bit harder to see but the landscaping will be lovely, I’m sure.
You are right, so many different styles! They are gorgeous and so huge! This was a fun tour, as usual.
Thanks, Mia! We’ll do that again after everything leafs out.
Love the tour! Can’t imagine the upkeep on the homes and the landscape. I don’t like the Tudor with bright white. I like it with cream a lot more. Love the different windows some of the homes had. They seem to be on large wooded lots and have circle driveways…nice. Noticed two big white dogs that looked like Great Pyrs. I’ve never seen an albino squirrel! And, yes please, another drive with all the Spring blooms!
Those dogs were beautiful! There were actually three in the front yard, but when I cropped the photo for a closer view of the house, it removed the other one. I was thinking how much food three dogs that size must eat! They were gorgeous, though!
Gosh darn it! I almost (almost!) feel like moving. Such a pretty neighborhood.
Susan, you know how we all love these home tours. And what homes! Absolutely gorgeous. I love these Americana neighborhoods. Newer neighborhoods are often so sterile, with 3 or 4 floorplans each being built hundreds of times.
In fact, my hubby was telling me about a video he saw where the poster was complaining about “15 year” homes. This is where the materials are literally only good for 15 years, as contrasted by older homes that were meant to last 100 years (or more.) So what do people with a 30 year mortgage do when their new house falls apart halfway through their payments? What a mess!
So glad to see those grand old ladies still standing and doing so, beautifully.
Such a beautiful neighborhood and tour! We have many homes and tours such as these here in Connecticut – Tudors are my favorite though – all of the homes you presented are so unique! As mentioned, easier to see the architecture without the leaves, but will be lovelier in Spring/Summer!