The Globe-Miami Chamber is pleased to announce the details of the 26^th annual Globe Historic Home and Building Tour  which will take place the weekend of Feb. 20-21. The annual tour provides visitors a glimpse of life in territorial Arizona with stops at elegant early day homes and imposing businesses.

Visitors will be driven to each stop on the tour by community volunteers and each stop has hosts and hostesses who will be giving details on early history of each stop.

Tickets will be sold from the old freight depot in the railroad complex at the corner of Broad and Sycamore Streets in downtown Globe. Visitors can tour the renovated passenger train depot before starting the formal tour. Tickets are $15 adult for adults and $10 for seniors 65 and older or children 12 and younger. Tickets are on sale both days from 9 am to 3 pm.

The Globe-Miami Chamber of Commerce sponsors this annual tour. Visitors will receive a souvenir copper ticket along with a packet of special coupons offered by chamber members. The tour also includes a stop at the 20^th annual Pieces of Friendship quilt show and the antique show to be offered at Copper Rim School.

Stops this year will range from a lovely restored red brick building only a block from downtown to the old Gila County Jail, which houses cell blocks from the Yuma Territorial Prison. The jail will be showing a new DVD film on the historic jail, courtesy of APS.

Noftsger Hill Inn, the lovingly restored elementary school that now is used as a nationally-known bed and breakfast will be part of the tour also.

Also the Snell House, a beautiful example of the Craftsman type of residential architecture popular between 1905 and 1930 will be on display. The home is built of dacite, which is quarried locally and used in many historic buildings in the area. The home was built in 1911 and was the home of Henry V. Snell, the chief mining engineer at the Old Dominion Mine.

Globe High School will be a part of the tour and special displays of its 100 years in Globe will be exhibited, with students hosting visitors to the historic building still in use today as a school.

We have confirmation from Joe’s Broad Street Grill, across the street from the depot, that he will have a special pasty meal from 1-4 Saturday and 11-3 on Sunday. Cornish pasties are pastries filled meat and potatoes. The early day miners took these in the lunch buckets. The pasties were easy to hold and to eat and while traditional filling is the meat and potatoes, it could be anything that the wives had in their pantry such as extra vegetables, chicken, etc.

This is an excellent chance for visitors to sample a traditional Cornish pasty as they visit Globe’s Historic Home and Building tour.

Add to all of this a musical program planned by the Copper Cities Community Players, the Copper Spike Railroad and the friendly people of Globe. Visitors are sure to enjoy this special weekend.

Globe is located only an hour from the east Valley via US 60 or two hours drive north of Tucson. For more information, contact the chamber at 1-800-804-5623.