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Holiday walk features Elkhorn homes

ELKHORN — Kathy Wedige is used to hosting dozens of people in her home on Elkhorn’s Broad Street.

After raising six children and constantly serving holiday meals for up to 40 people, Wedige’s white stucco house and traditional style rooms are used to having plenty of guests.

This Saturday won’t be different. The only change is Wedige and her husband, Jim, will be hosting a different crowd at 610 N. Broad St.

The Wediges and four other Elkhorn homeowners will open their doors Saturday to host the seventh annual Homes for the Holidays Walk, hosted by the Elkhorn Area Women’s Club. Tickets are on sale for $10 in advance or $12 the day of the walk. Proceeds go to the Elkhorn Food Pantry.

“I was asked many years ago to have it in my house and refused,” Kathy Wedige said. “I was approached this time and said yes.”

“I don’t know what changed,” she added with a laugh. “They caught me in a weak moment.”

Also part of the walk are:

-- Kate Pietri’s white brick home on 300 N. Broad St. built in 1857.

-- The Unitarian Universalist Church of the Lakes built in 1930 and located at 319 N. Broad St.

-- The newly remodeled yellow clapboard farmhouse belonging to Chris and Ward Phillips at N5602 Voss Road.

-- Sweet & Maier Law Offices at 114 N. Church St.

“We’re excited about it,” said Tony Coletti, an attorney at Sweet & Maier. “It’s an honor to be allowed to show off this really nice old that house that has been kept up so well over the years.

“It’s a chance to help out the food pantry here in town. It’s a positive thing for the community.”

The Sweet & Maier Law Offices building was under the direction of Dexter Dewing in 1845. The house was owned by several members of the Dewing family until 1913, when it was sold.

The house features an oak winding stairway and an 1880 wood mosaic in the conference room. It was bought by Lowell and Mary Ellen Sweet in 1970. At that time, the lower floor was converted into offices and the upstairs were rented until 1980.

This is the second time the law firm will be featured on the walk.

“The entire lower level of the house will be open,” Coletti said. “People get a chance to see the older style home because it still has the old architecture and the old style flavor of the home from so many years back.”