(lively music) - Preservation Utah is celebrating historic neighborhoods during its spring Historic Homes Tour in the Avenues this May.

Executive director Brandy Strand is here to tell us what to expect.

Hi Brandy.

Welcome.

- Hi.

- I'm glad you're back in the Avenues.

- Oh, me too.

Thank you so much for sharing our story with this.

- Oh, yeah, so tell me, you're doing tours of homes built by Kletting, the architect.

- [Brandy] Yes.

- Okay, tell me more about him.

- Oh my goodness.

So, Richard Kletting, if you haven't heard of him, you've seen his buildings, Utah State Capitol, the original Saltair, the original Salt Palace, and then even if you drive past the Thomas S. Monson Center, that was designed by Kletting as well.

He left a very, like, big impact on our historic built environment.

- Boy, no kidding.

I didn't even know his name.

But it's homes that he designed, right?

- What's so neat about this is that we've been working with some local researchers and we found over 20 homes in the Avenues that Richard Kletting has designed.

So now we're working with property owners to open up those homes so that we can see not just the beauty on the outside, but also the beauty on the inside of Kletting's designs.

- Wow, okay, so can you kinda tell me some of the homes and where they are?

- Well, we try not to release the addresses before.

- Oh, yeah, you don't wanna know.

- We really do want to respect and value the privacy of the private homes that are being opened to the public.

So the only way to really find out about any of these is that you have to come to the tour, support our organization and walk through a beautiful, historic neighborhood.

- Okay, and do you have to sign up to go on these?

- Absolutely.

You register through our website.

It's preservationutah.org.

May 17th.

Come on down.

It's gonna be a wonderful, probably a little warm day, but it's a great day to walk through the neighborhood.

- Okay.

And what address do you show up at?

- So we'll share the headquarters with everybody who signs up beforehand.

- [Mary] Okay.

- And we also actually work with local people in the neighborhood as well to choose that headquarters.

- All right, well, great, I'm looking forward to it.

And thank you so much for being here.

- Thank you as always.

- And if you'd like to know more about that upcoming Preservation Utah Spring Home Tour in the Avenues, it's May 17th from 10 AM to 4 PM.

Go to preservationutah.org.

Preservationutah.org.

(lively music) I'm Mary Dickson.

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