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Holiday house tour benefits Dormont Public Library

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The Glenmore Avenue home of Robert and Suzanne Lomire will be on the Sugarplum House Tour.

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The Glenmore Avenue home of Robert and Suzanne Lomire will be on the Sugarplum House Tour.

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The Glenmore Avenue home of Robert and Suzanne Lomire will be on the Sugarplum House Tour.

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The Glenmore Avenue home of Robert and Suzanne Lomire will be on the Sugarplum House Tour.

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The Glenmore Avenue home of Robert and Suzanne Lomire will be on the Sugarplum House Tour.

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The Glenmore Avenue home of Robert and Suzanne Lomire will be on the Sugarplum House Tour.

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The Glenmore Avenue home of Robert and Suzanne Lomire will be on the Sugarplum House Tour.

Unlike many homes built in the American Craftsman style, the one that Robert and Suzanne Lomire bought in the late 1990s had most of its woodwork and flooring intact.

In 2000, they decided to include their Glenmore Avenue residence as part of the annual home tour benefiting Dormont Public Library.

“It was well-kept for as old as it was,” Suzanne said at the time for a tour preview article in The Almanac. “We redid the bedrooms cosmetically, refinished the hardwood floors, did the windows and landscaping, but nothing structural.”

The Lomires are opening their home again from 4 to 8 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 6, as part of the library’s first Sugarplum House Tour, a holiday variation on the long-running event. Each stop on the tour will feature seasonal decorations, festive music and freshly baked treats.

Suzanne Lomire explained that about a century ago, the era when her house was constructed, builders “went from the ornate, machine-made Victorian style to homes that showed their craftsmanship.”

Another Glenmore Avenue house on the tour, owned by Gary and Mary Grace Rodgers since 1991, also was featured as far back as 2000.

“It was a beat-up house that wasn’t on the market,” Mary Grace said prior to that year’s event. “People thought we were crazy. It only took me to walk into the foyer to say, ‘I want this house.'”

They subsequently did extensive redecorating and remodeling, including adding a brick patio on the upper terrace near the entryway.

Other homes featured on the 2015 tour are nearby, on Espy Avenue.

Tickets, at $15, are available at the library and by visiting http://dormontlibrary.org/event/dormont-library-house-tour. For more information, call 412-531-8754.

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