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The official word:
The Westgate Neighbors Association (WNA) is hosting a tour of nine homes and gardens in historic Westgate (located just south of the 2800-3300 blocks of W. Broad Street) on Saturday, June 11, 2011, from 2-6 p.m. Presale admission is $10 and can be purchased on the WNA website (www.westgateneighbors.org), at Gearhart’s Hardware Store, 2885 W. Broad St. or at Haldeman Cleaners, 3117 W. Broad St. Day of the tour admission price is $12 beginning at 1:45 p.m. at the welcome tent at Binns Island in the 100 block of Binns Boulevard.
What can you expect to see on our tour? Well, one pre-Depression era house has original wallpaper, light fixtures, and ’milk-man cupboard’ where deliveries were passed into the house; one still has the original dumbwaiter in the kitchen, and yet another has a ghostly visitor who sits where her dressing table used to be, talking to her cat …
One garden has more than 180 varieties of roses, some dating back to the 1500s; another has a pond and a specially built pathway so the residents and their dogs  all close friends  can easily visit back and forth. And, oh yes  six of the nine homes on the tour sit on land that was once part of Camp Chase, a Union Training and Confederate Prisoner-of-War camp during the Civil War.
The 2011 Westgate Home and Garden Tour will proceed rain or shine.
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The word from me:
Who doesn't like peeping through other people's houses?? I totally cop to loving it when someone leaves the curtains open at night. Well, here is your big chance to see inside some great houses, tour some truly excellent gardens and wander around my awesome neighborhood.
I'll be at the main tent, taking your hard-earned cash, so make sure to say HELLO!
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