March 18th
10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.

Historic Homes Tour – Tickets are $17 in advance or $20 day of the tour. Tours of 10 or more $15 per person. Tickets are available at Oakleigh and other ticket outlets throughout the city (see our Tickets page for full details). To order tickets by mail click here to download an order form. Tickets will also be available for purchase on the day of the Tour at each stop on the Tour.

March 18th
noon – 1:00 p.m.

Lunch at Richards DAR House. Tour and light lunch. Tickets $10 – advanced purchase is required. Proceeds from the lunch will benefit Richards DAR House.

March 18th
2:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.

Afternoon Tea at Mobile's Historic House Museums. Choose from the Bragg-Mitchell Mansion or Portier House. Seating is limited. Tickets are $10. Proceeds from the teas will benefit each house museum.

March 18th
3:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.

Walking tour of Magnolia Cemetery. Offered by the Mobile Historic Development Commission. The tour is available with a separate $5 ticket. Proceeds will benefit the Historic Mobile Preservation Society.

March 18th
5:30 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.

Conversation and Champagne. Tom McGehee, curator of the Bellingrath home will give a lecture on The Lost Architecture of Government Street. The lecture will take place in the Bernheim Hall of the Mobile Public Library. The presentation will be followed by a Champagne reception. Tickets are $15 and may be purchased at the Oakleigh Historic Complex. Proceeds will benefit the Historic Mobile Preservation Society. Come early and take a complimentary tour of our wonderful historic library. Free tours will be offered by library staff starting at 4:30 p.m.

March 19th
10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.

Historic Homes Tour – Tickets are $17 in advance or $20 day of the tour. Tours of 10 or more $15 per person. Tickets are available at Oakleigh and other ticket outlets throughout the city. To order tickets by mail click here to download an order form. Tickets will also be available for purchase on the day of the Tour at each stop on the Tour.

March 19th
2:00 p.m.

Lecture at the Condé-Charlotte House. Cartledge W. Blackwell, architectural historian, will lecture on Drive Thrus and Emergency Rooms: Modernity in Mobile. Seating is limited. Tickets are $10 and includes lecture and light refreshments.

March 19th
3:00 p.m.

Eugene Walters Reading. On the porch of the Cox-Deasy House, where Eugene Walter lived, Broadway actor Joel Vig ("Hairspray") joins Mobile literary scholars John Hafner and Sue Walker (both friends of the writer's) to read from Walter's memoirs. Seating is limited. This event is brought to you through a partnership with the Southern Literary Trail. The reading is complimentary.

March 19th
2:00 p.m.

Tennessee Williams Reading & Reception at the Mobile Carnival Museum. Alabama's Poet Laureate Sue Walker will present and discuss the unheralded poetry of Tennessee Williams. Dr. Kenneth Holditch, Professor Emeritus of the University of New Orleans and a personal friend of the playwright's, presents an address about Williams and his coastal plays. The program is moderated by Broadway actor Joel Vig. Seating is limited. Tickets are $15 and includes lecture, tour, and reception. This event is brought to you through a partnership with the Southern Literary Trail. The reading is complimentary.

March 18th & 19th

Round-out your visit to Mobile with a visit to the lovely Bellingrath House and Gardens. During mid-March the azaleas should be in full bloom, turning the grounds of Bellingrath into a blaze of reds, pinks, whites, and lavenders. Tickets may be purchased when you order your Historic Homes Tour tickets.