The fifth annual Broad Ripple Historic Home Tour will be held from 10 a.m. until 6 p.m. on Saturday, September 26, 2009. The homes on the tour are:

6106 Riverview Drive - The 1951 home was custom built. The current owners have made such renovations as crafting and installing new kitchen cabinets that are as close to the original ones as possible.

911 E 61st Street - The diminutive four-room farm house possibly was built around 1880, then grew both out and up at the hands of various owners through the years.

6173 N Park Avenue - The home features an enclosed porch that opens from the back of the living room and a full bath to the rear of the kitchen. An exterior kitchen window became a pass-through to the former porch, which has taken on a Nantucket air.

6002 Guilford Avenue - The four-square home includes a sleeping porch that is now the master bedroom, opening onto a newly constructed second-story deck. The daughter's bedrooms are decorated with a fairytale tree house in one and the use of flowers and stripes and lots of pink in the other.

6129 Riverview Drive - This home was possibly one of the last of the houses to be built before the institution of the 1942 World War II moratorium on building.

44 Kessler Blvd E Drive - Built circa 1946, the house is an example of some of the types of homes that had sprung up immediately after World War II - not quite a cottage, not quite a ranch, and yet more contemporary than the Broad Ripple Tudors, bungalows, four-squares and colonials of the 1920s and 30s.

5919 N Central Avenue - The home was built before 1930, though records are incomplete. The current owners have been sensitive to the home's historic context.

6157 N Park Avenue - The home features four "Fox Stained Glass Studios"-windows, a "faux" front porch floor, and a knot garden and pagoda in the backyard.

6537 Carrollton Avenue - One of the oldest houses on this year's Broad Ripple Historic Home Tour - a photo attests to the fact that a house existed there at least in 1898.

6419 Broadway Street - The house came into being sometime around 1929. Updates to the original floor plan include an expanded upstairs, an additional stairway, expanding the kitchen into the breakfast nook and bookshelves along the stairway.

Proceeds from the tour will benefit the Broad Ripple Village Association, which maintains several Broad Ripple lots, medians and parks, as well as initiates village cleanup efforts.

Tickets will be available the day of tour for $12. Advance tickets are available for $10 at select locations of presenting sponsor KeyBank including 6410 College Avenue in Broad Ripple. Tickets are also available at select Marsh locations.

Volunteer positions (includes free ticket and t-shirt) are available throughout the tour. Contact the BRVA at 251-BRVA for details.

For more information about this year's Historic Home Tour please call 317-251-BRVA (2782) or visit www.BroadRippleHomeTour.org.