(upbeat music) - Preservation Utah invites the public to explore private homes in the Fairpark neighborhood, offering a rare glimpse into architectural styles spanning from the 1850s to mid 20th century.

Brandy Strand joins us to share what makes this tour unique.

Hi, Brandy.

- Hi, thank you so much.

- Yeah, and so Preservation Utah does these amazing tours.

You've done some in the Avenues and some downtown, but this is your first Fairpark tour, is that right?

Or have you've been doing... - Well, yes.

- This a little bit?

- So we have an annual tour that we've done every spring, and it's usually in the Avenues, downtown Salt Lake area.

And what we're expanding now is we do a second in the fall.

- Oh, okay.

- And we are taking it to the west side.

So last year, our first time ever on the West side, we went to Rose Park, and this year we're in Fair Park, and we're so excited to be in that neighborhood.

It's very unique.

- Yeah, so tell us more about what drove you to the Fairpark.

- Well, what's really neat about Fairpark is it's a national historic district.

So it's gone through and it's had research done on it to identify all of the historic properties there.

There are over 1100 buildings and places that are identified in that national registry.

So what's really cool as well is that you have the Fairpark right in the middle of it.

So you're gonna see everything from an 1850s Adobe all the way up to like what you were saying, that mid-century modern style, because it was built over many, many generations.

- Yeah, and what are the unique stories that people learn?

- Well, I think what you're gonna find, so what we're gonna do is on October 11th, we're doing a free lecture for people to come and learn about the neighborhood.

We have Alan Barnett, he's a historian and a Fairpark resident, and he's gonna come and tell more of the the stories behind it.

But what you'll learn is that over time, it was our immigrant and working-class community that built that neighborhood.

They've had it for generations.

You're gonna see homes that have five generations of the exact same family in that home, because Fairpark is very close knit.

And I'm just so excited to tell that story.

So I hope people will come and learn more at the lecture.

- Oh, that's incredible.

And if people have never been to your tours before, they're so well done.

You have experts, and you learn so much.

And thank you for coming to tell our audience about it.

- Well, thank you so much for spotlighting it.

- And if you'd like to learn more about this special tour at the Fairpark Neighborhood in Salt Lake City, you can go to Preservation Utah's website.

That's preservationutah.org.

This happens on October 18th from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Again, visit preservationutah.org.

I'm Laura Durham, thank you for watching "Contact."

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