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This Christmas, the Old North End is everyone’s neighborhood.

From 10 a.m.-5 p.m., December 12 the Old North End Holiday Home Tour invites the public to celebrate the holiday season with a festive, open house tour that offers unique access to some of the most historic, architecturally significant and beautiful homes in the area – with enriching insight about the history of each house.

Four distinctive homes in the Old North End make up the 2015 tour, including a 1926 home representing Spanish Revival architecture and an 1896 Victorian home said to be haunted.

Purchase tickets online at csholidayhometour.com or at Kirkpatrick Bank, 25 N. Cascade Ave., Suite 100, in downtown Colorado Springs. Advance tickets are $25, with discounts available for groups of 10 or more. All tour proceeds will benefit local nonprofit TwoCor Projects.

TwoCor is a local youth service agency dedicated to developing work ethic and marketable workplace skills for at-risk young men and women, ages 15-19, in the Pikes Peak region. TwoCor helps young clients rise above their troubled past and grow into productive, self-sufficient and employable community members. The program integrates direction from neuroscience research and trauma-informed therapeutic practices with hands-on vocational training, paid community work projects, and paid internships with local businesses. For more information about the TwoCor mission, services or how you can help, please contact us at 719-471-6916.

Proceeds from the Holiday Home Tour will provide vital new shop equipment to expand the training and job opportunities available for the TwoCor youth. The 2014 Holiday Home tour welcomed nearly 600 visitors, and raised $14,000 for TwoCor.