Want to know what it’s like to live downtown? Take the Downtown Home Tour when it rolls around next year — or keep reading to see what was on this year’s Home Tour. The beauty of it is that you will get to see all kinds of downtown living options — from apartments to large and small condos. And you’ll see all decorating styles — from high-end to funky and from packed-full-of-art to spare and elegant.
Every view is different, whether it’s of the Tennessee River and the Great Smoky Mountains or of the center city with all its hustle and bustle.
For 29 years — from 1990 to 2019 — the Downtown Home Tour was organized and benefited a group called City People, formed to connect those who lived, worked or played downtown. But last year, City People was dissolved, and the tour, which was suspended during the pandemic, did not start back up. Enter the East Tennessee Historical Society, which this year picked up the Downtown Home Tour and pulled it off last weekend.