Marquette Tower part of Holiday Home Tour

Five locations, including the Marquette Tower, will be part of the annual Holiday Home Tour from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday in Cape Girardeau and Jackson.

The lobby area of the Marquette Tower at 338 Broadway will be one of two tour stops in Cape Girardeau.

Marquette Tower project manager Ryun Holloway said workers are decorating canopies and putting lights outside.

“I know a good bit of stuff is going up,” Holloway said.

Tickets sold in Cape Girardeau and Jackson benefit the local Lutheran Family and Children’s Services, which provides counseling, adoption, crisis pregnancy assistance, foster care, child care, youth mentoring services and disaster relief across the state. 

The Marquette Tower’s owners already were familiar with Lutheran Family and Children’s Services, and adding the Marquette Tower to the home tour provided another opportunity to help a worthy cause, Holloway said. 

For the Marquette Tower owners, the home tour also will have the benefit of showing people the progress they have made on the renovation project.

Local investors are working to make the Marquette Tower into a startup incubator and the Marquette Center and H-H Building into a Marriott Courtyard Hotel.

The Kellerman House at 6 S. Fountain St. also will be part of the tour. The Kellerman house was built in 1882 and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1994. Bert and Mary Ann Kellerman will be hosts.

Three Jackson families will open their homes for the tour: Ed and Donna Groves at 218 N. Hope St., Jerry and Sandra McCearley at 1632 County Road 618, and Mark and Tia Rademaker at Rademaker’s Rusted Route farms at 5739 Route W. The Rademakers also will serve refreshments at their farm.

Tickets for the home tour cost $25 in advance and $30 at the door.

Tickets can be purchased at Patrick Furniture, Sunny Hill, Southeast Health Volunteer Services, all Bank of Missouri locations and the Lutheran Family and Children’s Services office at 3178 Blattner Drive.

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Pertinent address: 338 Broadway, Cape Girardeau, MO

6 S. Fountain St., Cape Girardeau, MO

218 N. Hope St., Jackson, MO

1632 County Road 618, Jackson MO

5739 State Hwy W, Jackson, MO

3178 Blattner Dr., Cape Girardeau, MO