The date has been set for this year’s South Haven Cottage Walk.

SHOUT for South Haven’s Patty Sheppard tells us this is the 28th year for the event, and on the agenda are four homes. She says the Cottage Walk is a chance for anyone to take a tour of noteworthy or historic homes around the community, perhaps to get decorating ideas for their own home, to learn a little something, or just to satisfy their curiosity.

“A lot of people are really interested in the old homes in South Haven, and so this gives them an opportunity to actually, instead of just driving by, to go inside one of the historical homes in South Haven,” Sheppard said.

Among the homes this year will be a historic Victorian home situated on the bluff above South Beach that Sheppard says used to be a nunnery.

A nunnery?

“A former nunnery. So it’s kind of fun. There used to be a roller rink in the basement and there used to be an exercise gym on the third floor. So, there’s all kinds of really interesting things about the house.”

The Cottage Walk will take place on Saturday, June 28 from noon to 5 p.m. Sheppard says tickets are $20, and those who take the tours can go at their own pace.

SHOUT for South Haven is teaming up with the Scott Club for the tours this year to help the Scott Club raise funds to make its building on Phoenix Street more accessible with an elevator. Proceeds from the Cottage Walk also help SHOUT beautiful the Dyckman Bridge each spring.

Sheppard says around 300 people usually take part in the tours. Tickets will go on sale next month.