Mission Hills Salon Sloane and Walking Tour

Join us for “A Streetcar Through Mission Hills,” a guided walking tour along a former streetcar line in the historic Mission Hills neighborhood. This 60–90-minute tour will be led by Barry Hager, co-founder of Mission Hills Heritage, a community-based nonprofit focused on historic preservation. The tour will explore the streetcar’s route through Mission Hills and the beautiful homes built along it. Learn about Kate Sessions’ nursery, which was adjacent to the rails, the development spurred by the streetcar, and the builders and early residents who shaped the area.

View homes in various architectural styles built by some of San Diego’s leading builders of the time, including Nathan Rigdon, Morris B. Irvin, Alexander Schrieber, and Martin V. Melhorn, along with a home designed by the renowned early 20th-century architect Richard Requa.

We will gather at Salon Sloane, 1605 W. Lewis Street—a historic Mission Revival-style building in the West Lewis business district of Mission Hills, constructed in 1911 as part of the Rigdon Block.