2021 Mad About Modern Home Tour
TICKETS ON SALE TODAY!
Join us for a special 10th anniversary edition of the Mad About Modern Home Tour! This unique tour gives attendees insider access to five private homes representing some of the best midcentury + modern architecture and design in the Queen City – all from the comfort of your couch.
For the second year in a row, the tour will be virtual. Ticket holders get exclusive online access to 360-degree tours of the featured homes inside a digital guidebook that highlights each home’s significant modernist features. Get a sneak preview of the featured homes at madaboutmodern.com.
Craving a chance to celebrate 10 years of midcentury tours in person? Get tickets to the exclusive Mod Experience party and fundraiser taking place at The Charlotte Museum of History on Thursday, September 23 at 6:00 p.m.
THREE GREAT TICKET OPTIONS
Virtual Home Tour: $25
Includes a keepsake digital guidebook with insider access to five featured homes, with extensive photography, 360-degree virtual tours, and historical essays about each house highlighting the architects, owners, and design. The Virtual Home Tour ticket is for the virtual tour and digital guidebook only. The virtual tours will be accessible beginning Thursday, September 23 to Friday, October 22. The Digital Guidebook is yours to keep!
Mod Experience Party & Fundraiser: $75
Includes admission to the Mod Experience Thursday, September 23 at 6:00 pm at The Charlotte Museum of History. The party takes place outdoors and inside the museum and features a midcentury modern pop-up exhibit, midcentury-themed activities and a costume contest for best midmod attire. The pop-up exhibit includes iconic midcentury modern furniture and accessories, including an original Eames chair, from Fos Restoration Co. This ticket is for the in-person Mod Experience party and fundraiser only and does not include the Virtual Home Tour.
Modernism Friend Donation: $100
Want to extend your support of the Mad About Modern Home Tour and The Charlotte Museum of History? Become a Modernism Friend! Your additional contribution will help support the Museum’s ongoing work to advocate for historic preservation and share our region’s unique history. Modernism Friend donors who donate before September 17 will be listed in the digital guidebook.
August 25, 2021
Charlotte City Council will hold a public hearing on Sept. 27 for the designation of the Stafford-Holcombe Farm, located in eastern Mecklenburg County near the Cabarrus County border. The main house, constructed in the early 19th-century, still stands as do a variety of other buildings, including an early 19th-century log slave quarter-tenant house.
We believe that our designated landmarks should tell the broad story of Mecklenburg County and we hope you take some time to delve into the history of this property or any of our other prospective or designated properties.
For more: “Mecklenburg’s last slave cabin may soon be designated as a local historic landmark”
August 19, 2021
We are glad to announce that on August 16th the William H. Peeps House (831 E. Worthington Avenue), the Ervin Building (4037 E. Independence Blvd), and the Larkwood-Chadbourn Hosiery Mill Plant (451 Jordan Place) were designated as local historic landmarks by the Charlotte City Council. These three properties represent a diversity of building ages and types.
At this same meeting, Charlotte City Council also amended the ordinances for the Edgewood Farm (11132 Eastfield Road), and the Victor Shaw House (2400 Mecklenburg Avenue) to allow for sensitive in-fill development projects that will preserve the historic homes.
Peeps House
Ervin Bldg
Larkwood-Chadbourn Hosiery Mill Plant
August 17, 2021
It’s hard to believe but Labor Day is just a few short weeks away! If you’re staying in town that weekend, take the opportunity to visit historic Rural Hill, a designated landmark since 1987, for the 241st Anniversary of the Battle of Charlotte. Watch a reenactment of three Revolutionary War battles, including one which partially occurred at Rural Hill. Experience multiple interpretative demonstrations, including kids drills and artillery demonstrations. And make sure to spend some time getting lost in the Amazing Maize Maze.
For Tickets: Battle of Charlotte
Do you live in or know anyone who lives in the North Charlotte/Mallard Creek area? This is the site of the Siloam School and the Charlotte Museum of History is interested in hearing from these communities for the museum’s virtual Save Siloam School Project Engagement Session this Thursday, August 19, at 5:30 pm. No matter where you live, please consider attending this virtual meeting to hear updates and provide feedback on this exciting project.
Register Here: Save Siloam School Project Engagement Session
Siloam School
