2024 Holiday Home Tour

A beautifully preserved Victorian townhouse from the 1880s, this residence has been rehabbed by Ludlow natives to have a sensitive and comfortable mixture of new and old design and furnishings. The exterior exhibits beautiful, unpainted brickwork and original details in stone and wood, with a spacious L-shaped porch that addresses the corner site. The interiors feature both restored rooms and newer spaces such as a custom-designed, eat-in kitchen with modern fixtures, lighting, and art. The owners have done much of the rehabilitation work themselves.

This is one half of a brick Victorian double house in the Italianate style, built in the late 1880s as part of the "Webster Subdivision." Double houses proliferated in Ludlow, especially after the arrival of the railroad, as they could efficiently occupy smaller lots and house two families side-by-side. The exterior is restored, while the current owner, proprietor of a popular Ludlow business establishment, has rehabbed the interiors in a crisp modern style while retaining original features such as mantles and staircase. A custom eat-in kitchen occupies the original dining room and the house features handsome modern bathrooms and lighting. 

This elegant early 20th-century house in the Colonial Revival style was home to Dr. Frank Dutton Criegler and his wife Grace. It has an interesting porch with tapering concrete columns and other details that were probably cast in Ludlow. The interiors are beautifully preserved and feature many Colonial-style details, such as columned mantelpieces and a handsome staircase. The current owner, a young building contractor, has designed and erected small modern buildings in the surrounding grounds to create Ludlow's first "air b&b complex." 

An Italianate Victorian townhouse of the 1880s, with a later, craftsman-style brick porch, this house has many original details, both outside and in. Unusually, the owners have some of the original Victorian architectural drawings for the house, beautifully executed by a Prussian-born architect named Emil Baude, who studied at German technical academies before immigrating to the United States. His drawings show the house with its first porch, a wooden Victorian composition. The interiors exhibit original stairs, mantlepieces and coal grates. Of the current residents, the husband is a carpenter who engages in woodworking; examples of his handicraft will be displayed.

This is a brick townhouse dating from the 1890s, built in the Ludlow family's "Second Partition" or subdivision. It has a late-Victorian vertical composition, combined with Colonial Revival details and deep, handsome, pressed-metal cornices and boxed-in gutters . The owners are part of Ludlow's new "creative class." He is a graphic designer and art historian; she is an interior designer. They have opened the original spaces and have created unique gallery walls of art. They also designed custom patterns and textures for use throughout the house. It is full of bold colors, emphasized by dramatic modern lighting. The attic has become an exciting playroom for the family's children.