Holidays in the Highlands 2019

Holidays wow in the Highlands!!!

The 2019 Holidays in the Highlands Home Tour was a wonderfully successful event. We hosted approximately 500 guests on the tour and we received some amazing feedback about how much fun they had.

As always, The Episcopal Church of the Ascension made a beautiful starting point for the tour through The Highlands Historic District. In case you missed these beautiful widows pictured to the right are in the the front of the sanctuary. These windows are especially special as they include representations of the industries that brought growth to Middletown. In the bottom left window the steel industry is represented and in the bottom right the paper industry. These are special to the Highlands as well since many of the families who built the homes in what known today as the Highlands also worked in these industries and funded building The Episcopal Church of the Ascension which is the jewel of our district.

This year we brought back the trolley. As always, A Savannah Nite was an amazing partner for this experience and we are looking forward to bringing back the trolley experience in 2021 as well.

For the first time ever the Highlands created a VIP tour experience where we utilized the amazing trolley to take our VIPs to each home on the tour. Not only did they receive a private ride they were invited into tour the upstairs areas of some homes and an entire additional home, The Cressman House, that was off limits on the self-guided tour. The amazing homeowners at one stop even had homemade cookies as a special gift.

All of our tour guests had the opportunity to visit 8 homes, 4 of which were new to the tour. The homes on the tour were, The Atkinson House, The Johnston House, The Hook Mansion, The Ranck Mansion, The Ahlbrand House, The Goldman House, The Aupperle House, and The Happersberger House. Also new this year, we added a Santa Selfie stop where our guest could snap some photos with Santa and grab a snack and a warm beverage.

We had such a blast bringing everyone into our homes to spread the holiday cheer. While the homes were decked in their holiday best, The Sidney Case McCammon Carillon rang in with the most cheer playing holiday classics thanks to the amazing talent of Carillonneur Noah Carpenter.

If you were not able to join us this year make sure you check out out tour page for some amazing photos from the homes on the tour and around the neighborhood and make plans to join us on our next holiday tour in 2021. Follow us on Facebook and Instagram to stay in touch with the Highlands activities and events to come.

If you joined us on the tour this year you may have noticed that many of the homeowners welcomed photos. We are so excited to see what you found amazing so make sure to tag us in your social media photos with #LoveTheHighlandsLife or #2019HolidaysInTheHighlands

Thank you for all your support and the love you show for our beautiful neighborhood.