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Branch Profile
Northville Home Tour
This year's Annual Northville Home Tour
will be Saturday, September 19, 2009 from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. The Tour
features four residential homes built in varying time periods which offer
an opportunity to view life in this area from different
perspectives. These homes include a historic Greek Revival built
about 175 years ago; a 1929 home that may be a 'Sear's Kit Home'; a
Victorian inspired home built in 2000 with its collection of antiques; and
a more modern home, with its eclectic collection of art works that the
owners have gathered in their travels.
In September of 1995 the Branch sponsored the first Home Tour. This is an intensive fund-raising project and one that is very popular with the Northville-Novi community. Four or five homes are presented for each tour. AAUW members as well as others in the community serve as hostesses for the homes. Many beautiful homes have been presented over the years with a brand-new log home being on tour twice.
The Home Tour is scheduled to coincide with Northville's popular Victorian Festival and has become an integral part of the Festival. It has been a sell-out event each year it has been held.
Funds raised from the home tours have enabled us to establish scholarship endowment funds for the Women's Center at Oakland Community College and the Women's Resource Center at Schoolcraft College. We have increased our donations to AAUW's Educational Foundation, the Legal Advocacy Fund and the Virginia Gildersleeve International Foundation. Funds also help support the Amerman Elementary School's Gender Equity Project.
2009 Home Tour
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Remember the Ladies
Branch members developed a research project which revealed that the Northville and Novi school libraries were short on books about women. The "Remember the Ladies" theme was embraced and through group or individual donations of $25, books about women and women's history were donated to the school libraries. Over the last several years, additional branch monies have been given to both the Northville and Novi libraries to expand their collection of materials related to women.