Eight exemplary Modernist houses will be open for one day only during North Carolina Modernist Houses’ Modapalooza Mobile Modernist Spring Tour around the Triangle on Saturday, April 2, from 8:30 a.m. until 5 p.m.

North Carolina Modernist Houses (NCMH) is an award-winning non-profit organization dedicated to archiving, preserving, and promoting Modernist residential architecture from the 1940s to today. The annual Modapalooza tour is a full day of visiting new, mid-century, and recently renovated Modernist houses around the Triangle region aboard a luxury shuttle bus. Breakfast, snacks and beverages aboard the bus and a catered lunch are included with a purchased ticket.

The private homes on this year’s tour are...

In Durham:

The 1950 Pickrell House designed by William Sprinkle and Doris Stanley and renovated by Ellen Cassilly

The 1969 Kornberg House designed by Jon Condoret and renovated by Center Studio Architecture

The 2015 Louis House designed by Bill Waddell

In Chapel Hill:

The 1957 Van Wyk House designed by Jim Webb and renovated by John Lindsey

The 2015 Farahany House designed and built by Phil Szostak

In Raleigh:

The 1973 Kebschull House designed by Harv Kebschull

The 2015 Hurt-Manzi House designed by Louis Cherry

The 2014 Cherry-Gordon House, also designed by Louis Cherry -- made nationally famous by a neighbor’s attempt to stop it from being built in Raleigh’s Historic Oakwood neighborhood. (For more information on the controversy: http://www.ncmodernist.org/2014oakwood.htm.)

The Modapalooza tour starts and ends in the Sheraton Imperial Hotel off I-40 in Durham. Tickets are $119 per person for the general public and $99 per person for NCMH’s Mod Squad members. NCMH tours tend to sell out quickly, so those interested are encouraged to purchase tickets soon at http://www.ncmodernist.org/palooza16.htm. Proceeds benefit NCMH. For more information on NCMH, visit www.ncmodernist.org.