Old West End Festival 2023: House Tours

House Tours

Saturday & Sunday, June 3 & 4, 2023

11:00am – 5:00 pm

Tickets: (Saturday & Sunday)

$20 per person (all five houses) 

$10 per person (single house tour)

Children 12 and under are free with a paying adult ticket

Tickets are available at each house tour site and at the three Information Booths (Arboretum, Art Fair/Marketplace & Glenwood Park Bazaar)

(Credit cards are accepted at these three Information Booths only)

The Devilbiss-Davis Home

3015 Collingwood Blvd.

This Neoclassical Mansion was built in 1902 for Willard E. Allen, a manufacturer of bath appliances. Thomas A. DeVilbiss and his family purchased and lived here from 1916 to 1932. The imposing front entrance greets the visitor to this 7200 sq. ft. home. The interior of the home is appointed with detailed woodwork, leaded glass, Tiffany-stained glass, barrel-vaulted ceilings and original Waterford lighting fixtures. Magnificent parlors, seven bedrooms, eight baths, seven fireplaces, solarium and a third-floor ballroom all add to make this a spectacular part of Toledo area history.

The Bolles-Stone-Gaynor Home

2428 Scottwood Ave.

The Bolles-Stone-Gaynor Home was built in 1910. This 4100 square foot Dutch Colonial was designed by well-known architect Harry Wachter for William and Dorothy (Bonner) Bolles. The home blends the owner’s eclectic style with the old and the new with Maxfield Parrish prints, Labino art glass and a celebration of the 50th year of the festival. Original to the home is a log cabin room built with cedars from the Scott High School campus with a stone fireplace. Bolles founded Troop 3 of the Boy Scouts of America where scouts met.

The Edward Ford Home

2205 Collingwood Blvd.

The Edward Ford Home was designed by architect George S Mills. This home has extensive use of terracotta for exterior embellishments in the Italian Renaissance style. The interior has intricate flame mahogany panels and columns in the central hallway, main staircase and in the beautiful oval dining room. There are also nine bedrooms and eight fireplaces.

The Boshart-Guyton Home

2055 Scottwood Ave.

The Boshart-Guyton Home, an example of English Arts & Crafts architecture, has been meticulously restored from the first floor up to the third floor ballroom and maid’s quarters. On tour for the first time ever for the 50th Anniversary Festival, enjoy the restored woodwork, stained glass windows, period wallpaper and other features of this beautiful home.

The R.J.Wheeler-J.F.Grosswiller-Malenda Home

2015 Scottwood Ave.

R.J.Wheeler-J.F.Grosswiller-Malenda Home is a unique brick English bungalow home built by Mills, Rhines, Bellman and Nordhoff architects of Toledo. This home has opened its doors for the first time to the festival. Transformed into doctor’s practice in the 1970s, the house has been meticulously restored to showcase original features from 1917, making it a stunning tour home.

Thank You Homeowners and House Captains

Vince & Pathy Davis – The Devilbiss-Davis Home

(Marge Dottling & Tim Glaza, House Captains)

Judy Stone & Skip Gaynor – The Bolles-Stone-Gaynor Home

(Bob Arthur, House Captain)

Chuck Madrigal & Finley Gleason – The Edward Ford Home

(Michael Walker, Alex Livingston, House Captains)

Tom & Ann Guyton – The Boshart-Guyton Home

(Tim Bexten & Laura Mishler, House Captains)

Nick & Jane Malenda – R.J.Wheeler-J.F.Grosswiller-Malenda Home

(Ben Jewett, House Captain)