Green House Open House - Saturday August 21, 12-4pm

Knox Heritage invites the general public to tour the Green House, the nonprofit organization’s tenth restoration project, during an Open House on Saturday, August 21, from 12 p.m. to 4 p.m. The house is located in the historic Fort Sanders neighborhood at 1011 Victorian Way (formerly 1011 Laurel Avenue), near the intersection of Laurel and 11th, and near Fort Kid.  Admission is free.  Parking is available in the lot next to Fort Kid or on World’s Fair Park Drive.

Attendees are welcome to tour the building and grounds, ask questions of the designers, contractors and KH staff, and see sustainable design and construction methods in practice. No RSVP is required.

The 1880s Victorian house, re-purposed over 25 years ago as the “Energy House” for the 1982 World’s Fair, is being renovated into a single-family residence once again. Cardinal Development and Kinsey Probasco Hayes donated the house to Knox Heritage in 2009, and since then a team of volunteer architects and designers have been planning the restoration of the home that would qualify it for LEED certification. Green and sustainable building materials and techniques are being utilized to make this historic home a national model for energy efficiency in historic preservation.