Previous tours featured Mashpee and Marstons Mills residences. Between talking to people I know, by word of mouth, if they saw a nice house, they just may say, this is a good one for the tour. It is a small museum that needs help. Irish said visitors from throughout New England attend each year, and many return for subsequent tours. Visitors must provide their own transportation between the featured homes, scattered throughout Cotuit and Osterville.
Some people zip through and others stop and take their time the whole way through.
Off-duty police officers will be on hand to guide the visitors during the tour. Although Grover and McElheny is funding the tour's advertising and some operational costs, most of the work and preparation is done through volunteers and donations, Wheatley said. His company does mostly re-modeling and restoration work in the Cotuit and Osterville area, and built one of the six homes on the tour. Too often, old houses are destroyed to make room for bigger, more modern homes, Grover said. I would not want to see these homes torn down for new trophy houses.