Holiday Tour of Homes features 5 houses

Homes include one decorated by a former, professional Christmas decorator of sports celebrity homes


 

 

The annual Holiday Tour of Homes is ready to fill tour-goers with some holiday decorating inspiration.

Five homes will be on display on Saturday, Dec. 5 from 1 4 p.m. during the fundraiser hosted by Historic Pipestone, Inc. The proceeds from the tickets sales $10 per person will be used for the ongoing rehabilitation of the historic St. Paul Episcopal Church.

HPI has been hosting the tour since at least 1986, drawing some 150 people during a typical year. A treat for participants this year will be the home of Duane Carlson on Second Ave. SW. Carlson is a Pipestone high school

 

 

alumni who left town for Florida shortly after his 1976 graduation. He lived in the Sunshine State for the past 39 years, working as a designer for most of his career. His specialty was actually Christmas decorating. Among his clients were sports celebrities such as Tiger Woods and Arnold Palmer.

“It was a blast,” he said about that part of his career. “It was nothing to have a $7,000-$10,000 budget.”

He’s far more modest with his own decorating budget, but still moves the holiday theme throughout the home he purchased when he moved back to Pipestone in March of this year. His style might be described as

 

 

contemporary traditional with a bit of the whimsical added.

Tickets for the tour can be purchased at any of the homes. After the tour, participants are invited to the Historic Calumet Inn for refreshments.

Five stops on the Holiday Tour of Homes

-Shawna Veldhuizen, 314 Second Ave. SE
-Duane Carlson, 512 Second Ave. SW.
-Dennis and Mary Tinklenberg, 503 West Main
-Craig and Lisa Jaspersen, 819 Fifth St. SW
-Michelle Nelson, 903 Fifth Ave. SE (Brown Addition)

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