- Date
- 1985-08-09
- Kind
- Celebration
- Where
- Beaver Island
- Carried out by
- Beaver Island Civic Association
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- communityheritagerecreationcelebrationcommunication
- Within
- Beaver Island
Summary
The Beaver Island Civic Association hosted a contemporary home tour on August 9, 1985. Six homes were open from noon to 4 p.m.; the newspaper reported 46 participants, volunteer hosts, refreshments, maps, and optional taxi service.
Evidence limits
This is a post-event community account, not a complete attendance record, property survey, or architectural inventory.
Sources
- Reports the August 9 tour of six homes—those of Doyle and Phyllis Fitzpatrick, Gwen Marston and Joe Cunningham, Chuck and Jane Anglin, Ray and Ruth Denny, Helen Cooper, and Glen and Betsy Borre—open noon to 4 p.m.; 46 people participated, with maps, descriptions, volunteer hosts, refreshments, and taxi service. It is a post-event newspaper account, not an attendance ledger, property survey, or architectural inventory. The holding institution's portal restricts automated access; the archive holds a copy of this issue and can provide it on request.data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 1985-08_Beaver-Beacon
- The held eighteen-page August–September combined issue PDF, filed canonically as August 1985, is paired with the remote OCR and confirms the home-tour account.data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 1985-08_Beaver-Beacon
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Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “Civic Association hosts a six-home contemporary tour, 1985”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-civic-association-contemporary-home-tour-1985/, accessed [date], citing Contemporary Home Tour, Beaver Beacon, August–September 1985 (combined issue filed as August). (and 1 further source listed on the page).
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