A highlight for tourgoers attending Saturday’s Albany Interior Tour of Historic Homes will be visiting the 1911 Widmer-Ferguson farmhouse on Spring Hill Drive in North Albany.

The two-story Prairie-style house sits on 2.8-landscaped acres, dominated by a 100-year-old Douglas fir. The property consists of three buildings: the main house, each floor with 1,600 square feet, a garage with a machine shed built in the late 1950s and a rear guesthouse built in 1930. Owners Linda and Larry Bardell use the guest house for their business and hobbies.

Linda operates A Touch of Class day spa, and Larry crafts award-winning, soft, poseable dolls with face, hands and feet made of polymer clay.

The Bardells have lived in the house 15 years and are completing a three-year remodeling project using the original blueprints, which will be on display.

The house was built on 209-acres by Christian and Barbara Widmer, Mennonite farmers from France. The couple had 10 children and raised prunes, walnuts, grains, chickens and hogs.

Also on the self-guided tour are:

* Anne and Rich Catlin’s Queen Anne/Vernacular built about 1903, the Albert Bowersox home, a work-in-progress on Montgomery Street.

* The 1908 Pfeiffer House Cottage Inn on Ferry Street.

* A 1946 cottage on Ninth Avenue.

* A 1900 Craftsman on Ferry Street.

Also open during the 31st annual event are the Carousel Studio and Dentzel American Carousel Museum, the Whitespires Church, the United Presbyterian Church, and the Albany Regional and Monteith House museums.

A horse-drawn wagon and a vintage trolley will move guests around to the houses. Strolling banjo player Bill Lanham will be on hand.

Rick Rogers, the executive director of the Albany Downtown Association, said there will be a street party in conjunction with the tour. The party on Third Avenue across from city hall is to celebrate all of the new businesses opening on the block. There will be music and refreshments.

To show support for the Albany Regional Museum and the Monteith Historical Society, members of those groups will receive a dollar off the tour ticket price when membership cards are presented.

The Albany Historic Interior Tour Committee sponsors the tour.

INTERIOR TOUR OF HISTORIC HOMES

What: 31st annual Interior Tour of Historic Homes

When: 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday

Cost: $10 adults, $8 for seniors or groups of 10 or more, free for children under age 12 with paid adult

Tickets: Available at the Albany Visitors Association the day of the tour, 250 Broadalbin St. S.W. No. 110.