Saturday or Sunday? The 50th Lakewood Home Tour Splits Its New Builds Across the Weekend

"You know the one." That is all the Lakewood Early Childhood PTA's 2026 reveal video says before it shows 6819 Avalon Avenue. The video calls it a house "we've all been dying to get inside." On Nov. 8, people with tickets finally can. They can't do it on Nov. 7, though. Avalon is the Sunday exclusive on this year's tour, the 50th Annual Lakewood Home Tour.

The other new build on the tour, 7059 Pasadena Avenue, opens on Saturday only. So the two newest houses on this anniversary tour never open on the same day. The six homes open both days include three houses close to a century old, one modern build and two others. Picking a single day means missing one of the two new builds. The ticket that still lets you see everything is the one nobody has sold out.

One new house on each day

Here is the weekend laid out the way the official ticket page lays it out. Daytime touring runs 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. on both Saturday, Nov. 7, and Sunday, Nov. 8.

The tour's official Instagram, embedded on the LECPTA home tour page, has more on Avalon. SHM Architects designed it, Newport Group built it and Collins Interiors did the interiors. The post mentions reclaimed roof tiles and steel-framed windows, and it describes "timeless Tudor character with a fresh, colorful point of view." Pasadena has gotten less coverage, so Saturday's exclusive is the bigger surprise of the weekend.

How the passes work matters here. The $50 Daytime Weekend Pass is good for daytime hours on Saturday, Sunday or both. At checkout the online ticket page adds a $7.95 fee, which brings the total to $57.95. If you split your visits across two days, one pass covers all eight houses, and you don't pay twice to see both new builds.

Six houses that tie the weekend together

The exclusives are the new builds. The six houses open both days run from the 1920s to the present, and they show more of Lakewood's range than the two newest homes do.

7030 Tokalon Drive has the deepest history on the tour. In Candy's Dirt's preview, Karen Eubank reports that L.H. Lacy and his wife Nina hired architect Vern E. Shanklin to design the French Eclectic house in 1929. Sandra and Herbert Steinbach bought it in 1972, and Jed and Shelby Dolson bought it in 2022, which makes them only its third owners. The Dolsons had owned two Hutsell homes in the neighborhood before this one. They lived in the back house while an addition and a large new kitchen went up, and they kept the original millwork, light fixtures and peacock doors. D Magazine notes that it's a former "10 Most Beautiful" home. Shelby Dolson told Candy's Dirt:

"It was the most work we've done on a home, but it also had the most potential."

The house sits on an acre. It has a formal English-style garden laid out with Land Pro, a pool, a tennis court and a greenhouse.

Here is how the reveal video describes the other five:

• 6645 Country Club Circle: a century-old Spanish Colonial where "nearly everything inside" has a story, "including the house itself."
• 600 N. Brookside Drive: nearly a hundred years old, with "a fresh update" that keeps it from feeling old.
• 7210 Brennans Drive: a traditional house under a canopy of live oaks, with light-filled rooms, a parlor and a zero-edge pool.
• 6823 Bob O Link Drive: "stylish, relaxed, and packed with personality," with a private den hidden off the primary suite.
• 7140 Wildbriar Drive: a modern house the video calls "bold, unexpected," where the owner has his own private DJ room.

Because these six open both days, you can spread them out. Pair a few with Pasadena on Saturday and save the rest for Sunday with Avalon. That way each day has one new build alongside some of the older houses.

The evening is already sold out

The Saturday evening option is gone. All candlelight tickets are sold out: the $65 Candlelight Tour ticket, the $100 VIP Candlelight ticket and the $2,500 VIP full-bus buyout. That leaves the $50 daytime pass as the only ticket still on sale. D Magazine reported the candlelight sellout in its Oct. 21 preview, more than two weeks before the tour.

According to the ticket page, VIP riders board buses at 6:15 p.m. on Saturday and ride from house to house until 9:30 p.m. The night ends with an optional after-party at Birdie's Eastside. A full-bus package holds 23 riders. Standard candlelight ticket holders get themselves between houses, and their tickets also work during Sunday's daytime hours.

So Sunday daytime brings in two groups: daytime pass holders and everyone with a candlelight ticket. Saturday daytime is for daytime pass holders only, because the candlelight crowd comes that evening. That gives you a simple plan:

1. Buy the Daytime Weekend Pass through the LECPTA home tour page. The guidebook comes with it.
2. On Saturday between 11 a.m. and 4 p.m., visit 7059 Pasadena and some of the six shared homes.
3. On Sunday, during the same hours, visit 6819 Avalon and the rest of the shared homes.

The houses may also have food. Shelby Dolson told Candy's Dirt that "there will be tastings at different houses" this year. Which houses and which vendors hasn't been announced, so check the guidebook when you pick it up.

From $200 to more than $400,000

The ticket price makes more sense next to the tour's history. Candy's Dirt reports that LECPTA started the tour in 1976 and made $200 that first year. In the October 2026 article, Candy's Dirt says the tour raised more than $400,000 "last year," which is about two thousand times its first year. Over its history the tour has raised more than $4.5 million, and it is still the PTA's most important fundraiser.

This year's proceeds go to the Dallas ISD Woodrow Wilson feeder pattern, which keeps LECPTA's support for East Dallas public schools going. For the anniversary, commemorative cups went home in Lakewood Elementary students' backpacks, each printed with a QR code for buying tickets and signing up to volunteer. Volunteer signups are still listed on the LECPTA home tour page.

Plan for both days, and one $50 pass gets you into all eight houses: the 1929 Shanklin on Tokalon, the Tudor-inspired new build on Avalon and everything in between.

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