The

39th annual Village Laguna Charm House Tour is scheduled for Sunday, May 15, 2011. The tour, featuring six of Laguna Beach’s most interesting homes, is presented by Village Laguna, a community organization whose mission is to preserve and enhance the unique village character of Laguna Beach and which embraces Laguna’s history while promoting the Laguna Greenbelt and Laguna Blue-belt.

This year’s eclectic selection of houses is located within the central village of Laguna. Homes featured include both contemporary and classical structures, some newly renovated and others maintaining their

From left: Charlotte Masarik, chair of the Charm House Tour house-finding committee; Todd Williams, owner of Xanadu; and Judy Teverbaugh, head hostess of Xanadu.

original beauty and scale.

The six homes chosen for this year’s tour clearly

demonstrate the diversity of character of Laguna Beach architecture.

Among the featured homes are two restored cottages built in the 1920s, a Spanish revival home built in 1929 by Aubrey St. Clair, an early Laguna architect, a dramatic contemporarystyle home perched above the village which is often used for lavish fund-raisers, a small home close to town with a French flair and the

“best intact full-scale Craftsman house in Laguna Beach,” according to the State of California Resources Agency.

Tour participants will be transported by specially chartered buses, originating at the Festival of Arts Grounds, 650 Laguna Canyon Road. Buses will circulate among the homes and the Festival area throughout the afternoon. The first bus will leave the Festival Grounds at noon and the last bus will leave at 3 p.m. Homes will be open until 5 p.m. Tickets are $40 each pre-sale and

Village Laguna Charm House Tour 2011 this Sunday, May 15

Lewis House, a spectacular Craftsman home built in 1927 that retains its original exterior.

$45 on the day of the event, if tickets are still available. Tickets can be obtained by visiting www. villagelaguna.org, or may be purchased at the following shops throughout Laguna Beach: Animal Crackers for Pets (30822 S. Coast Highway), Laguna Nursery (1370 S. Coast Highway), Coast Pet Supplies (880 N. Coast Highway), Copy & Print Center (240 Beach St.), Cottage Furnishings (802 S. Coast Highway), Fawn Memories (384 Forest Avenue), Hotel Laguna (425 S. Coast Highway), La Casa del Camino (1289 S. Coast Highway), Laguna Beach Books (1200 S. Coast Highway), Monarch Bay Optometry (13 Monarch Bay Plaza), Silver Images (311 Ocean Avenue), and at Rock Martin Custom Jewelry (268 Forest Avenue).

For additional information, call View from Xanadu, a 1926 restored cottage 949.472.7503.