Five private homes in Marietta's Church-Cherokee Historic District are set to open for the holiday season December 4–6, in the edition the event site calls the 40th annual Marietta Pilgrimage Christmas Home Tour.
The Marietta Pilgrimage lists Friday, Dec. 4, from 5 to 8 p.m., then Saturday and Sunday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. The tour features five distinctive residences decorated for the season.
Five Homes And A Year-Count Split
This year's published route is those five decorated private homes.
A November 19, 2019, Visit Marietta page still says the pilgrimage returns for its 39th year. The event website is the one attaching a 40th-annual label to the December 4–6, 2026 dates.
An undated Atlanta Journal-Constitution account described a 36th-year tour of five decorated private homes in the Whitlock Avenue Historic District, organized by the Marietta Welcome Center and Cobb Landmarks and Historical Society.
One Ticket, No Street Parking
Tour tickets are $40 when bought in advance online and $45 during the tour, the ticket page says. Online sales close at 4 p.m. on Dec. 3.
A ticket is good for all three days. Holders may tour the homes in any order, once each. Tickets will not be sold at the houses themselves.
Street parking is prohibited. Complimentary shuttle buses pick up and drop off at Mill Street and the William Root House.
Gala At The Whitlock Inn
The gala returns to the renovated Whitlock Inn on Dec. 3, from 7 to 10 p.m. Tickets are $100 a person and must be purchased online by 4 p.m. Dec. 1.
The same page describes seasonal food and drinks and live music. Online tour tickets close that afternoon at 4 p.m., three hours before the gala's listed start.
The practical sequence runs backward from the houses: gala tickets by 4 p.m. Dec. 1, online tour tickets until 4 p.m. Dec. 3, then a $45 ticket during the tour — and a shuttle, not a curbside spot, if you want to get there.
