Events

April 17 & 18, 2010

Grand Living the 16th Annual

Grand South Grand House and Garden Tour

11:00 am to 5:00 pm, both Saturday and Sunday, April 17th & 18th, 2010

The 16th annual Grand South Grand House and Garden Tour will be held from 11:00 am to 5:00 pm, both Saturday and Sunday, April 17th and 18th, 2010.  The tour will showcase the architectural and personal styles of grand living through five neighborhoods linked by South Grand Boulevard: Compton Heights, Compton Hill Reservoir Square, Shaw, Tower Grove East and Tower Grove Heights. Visitors will have the opportunity to see inside homes and gardens many only admire from the outside.

This year’s tour has one of the greatest diversity of housing of any previous tour.  There are mansions, condos, new dynamic housing and residences that are over 120 years old.  We have homes built for ease of modern living and a mansion built to such luxurious standards that there is a ladies' parlor on the and a gentlemen's parlor, each with a working fireplace.  There is an old store front that has been restructured into an artists living and work space and a new buildout on an older storefront that has a modern loft living space.  There are homes that will delight and gardens that will inspire.   So put the Grand South Grand House and Garden Tour on your calendar today!

Directions to the Ticket Booth and Start of the Tour

The Grand South Grand House and Garden Tour starts at the ticket booth at the South Grand entrance to Tower Grove Park, on South Grand at Pestalozzi, just across form Messiah Lutheran Church.From Interstate 64/40 take the Grand Ave Exit and go south on Grand approx two miles.  From Interstate 44 take the Grand Exit and go south approximately one mile. Turn right/west into the park entrance, just  past the light at Magnolia and South Grand.  From Interstate 70 or 55 take Interstate 44 West to the Grand Ave exit.  Go south on Grand approximately 1 mile and turn right/west into the park entrance, just past the light at Magnolia. The ticket booth will open from 10:30 am until 5 pm both days of the tour.

Ticket Pricing and Availability

Tickets are 15 dollars purchased in advanced before midnight,  April 16th; $18.00 purchased on either April 17th or 18th..  Children 12 and under are free. Group discounts are available for 10 or more. Tickets are valid for both days of the tour. 

Advanced tickets may be purchased at any one of three retail outlets:

Botanicals Design Studio: 3014 S Grand Blvd

Gringo Jones Imports: 4470 Shaw Blvd at Vandeventer

The Garden Gate Gift Shop/The Missouri Botanical Gardens: 4344 Shaw Blvd

You can also purchase tickets over the phone by calling 314.567.2030 or through Paypal on this website. All tickets will be exchanged for a tour booklet at the ticket booth.  Your booklet contains the map of the tour and is your pass into each home.

You can drive the route yourself with the map in the tour brochure that you pick up at the ticket booth at the beginning of the tour or use our Free Shuttle Busses available throughout the tour.  Ample free parking is available inside Tower Grove Park.

Anne Moore, Grand South Grand House Tour chairman, welcomes everyone to South Grand. “The Grand South Grand House and Garden Tour has successively grown in recognition as one of the best house and garden tours in St. Louis.  With its classic historic housing and strong, vibrant neighborhoods the tour draws visitors into the heart of St. Louis to savor the best of “Grand Living”

The proceeds from this year’s tour will be used to: improve South Grand Boulevard, assist in funding the restoration of the Fountain pond and ruins in Tower Grove Park and assist in funding the restoration of the restrooms in the Compton Hill Water Tower & Reservoir Park.