50th Annual Historic Home Tour

Preservation Sacramento’s 50th Annual Historic Home Tour takes place on Sunday, September 20, 2026. With a mission to highlight historically significant architecture of some of Sacramento’s most noteworthy historic homes and buildings, the 2026 Historic Home Tour will showcase six historic properties associated with the Old & New Washington School Historic Districts.

Located in the heart of Sacramento’s central city and bounded by C, H, 12th, and 19th Streets, this neighborhood is one of Sacramento’s oldest residential neighborhoods. The 2026 tour will highlight the neighborhood’s longtime and celebrated history with the Royal Chicano Air Force (RCAF), an internationally recognized collective of artists and activists that originated in Sacramento in the late 1960s.

Easily walkable and bikeable, the tour is focused in a compact area between D, G, 14th, and 19th Streets.

A central part of the 2026 Historic Home Tour, the Street Fair will be located on the Washington Elementary School grounds (1631 F Street) and is the starting point for the tour where attendees pick up wristbands (that serve as tour tickets), tour brochures (for more details about the homes and featured sites), and for day-of ticket sales if still available. Complimentary bicycle parking is available in a monitored Bike Corral provided by SABA (Sacramento Area Bicycle Advocates).

Each year, funds raised from Preservation Sacramento’s Historic Home Tour support nominations and surveys of historic properties. They also benefit other community projects that raise awareness of important and/or culturally significant historic places.

Initiatives supported by the Home Tour include the Japantown mural at Capitol Mall & 4th Street, National Register nominations for the North Sacramento and Jefferson Schools, and historic district nominations for the Newton Booth and Richmond Grove neighborhoods, just to name a few.