To mark the 10th anniversary of Glendale’s first historic district overlay zone, The Glendale Historical Society presents its Royal Revivals Home Tour on Sunday, Sept. 30, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

This year’s tour showcases six grand Period Revival homes in the Royal Boulevard Historic District. The homes were built between 1927 and 1936 and represent a variety of architectural styles, including Spanish Colonial, Colonial, French and Mediterranean Revival.

The Royal Boulevard Historic District, which consists of 30 homes along a curving, palm-tree lined stretch on one of Glendale’s most scenic streets, was established in 2008 through a neighborhood-led effort. Today, Glendale has seven designated historic districts and three more working their way through the approval process.

The six homes featured on this year’s Royal Revivals Home Tour are:

• Lewis House, a restored 1927 Mediterranean Revival home with a dramatic horseshoe-shaped double staircase leading up to the entry. The house has a two-story entrance hall that features five arched galleries, reminiscent of an Italian villa with Spanish accents. Listed on the Glendale Register of Historic Resources, the house was once occupied by Ed “Strangler” Lewis, holder of numerous heavyweight wrestling world championships who later became a successful local restauranteur.

• Scoones House, a 1928 Spanish Colonial Revival home with an imposing central tower and elaborate Churrigueresque style entrance. The home’s interior boasts many original details, including rustic exposed trusses with decorative straps and pegged connections, and beams with chamfered corners; stained-glass French doors; terra-cotta tile floors; decorative tile baseboards and staircase risers; and a vintage master bathroom with mottled tile and lily-pad motif on the ribbon border tile.

• Tupper House, a 1931 Spanish Colonial Revival home with an impressive two-tiered central entrance tower that includes decorative tiles around the upstairs window. The home’s façade is accented with an overhanging balcony of intricately carved wood, supported on large, carved wood corbels. The home’s interior contains many original features, including massive wood ceiling trusses, a quarter-round, radius-curved “beehive” fireplace with tile accents and stained glass windows.

• Jernegan House, a 1931 Spanish Colonial Revival home with a one-story living room wing on the right with a half-arch buttress, balanced by the cantilevered second-floor balcony on the left, supported by elaborately carved joists and corbels with distinctive wrought-iron railings. The living room has a Claycraft tile mantle that is original to the home. The house is listed on the Glendale Register of Historic Resources as an excellent example of the style.

• Daves-Cannon House, a 1936 Colonial Revival home designed by prominent Glendale architect Merrill W. Baird. The home is clad in brick at the first floor and wide-channel shiplap wood siding at the second, creating a strong horizontal emphasis and rich textural effect with Streamline Moderne influences. The foyer features a grand winding staircase with oak treads, wainscoting, scrolled handrail and decorative carved stringers. The house, which introduces the use of traditional details in untraditional ways, is listed on the Glendale Register of Historic Resources as an outstanding and unusual example of the style; it was once owned by David Cannon, co-founder and president of radio station KIEV-AM, one of the only family-owned-and-operated radio stations in Southern California.

• McCall’s House, built as a model home by Rossmoyne Village, Inc. under the supervision of local architect Merrill W. Baird and featured as the “Home of the Month” in the September 1936 issue of McCall’s, the national women’s magazine. In keeping with its French Revival style, the house resembles a small country manor house with a steeply pitched hipped roof and decorative segmentally arched “eyebrow” dormers that interrupt the roof line at the exaggerated cornice. Lois Modglin, co-owner of Modglin’s Originals Los Angeles, a California art pottery company that operated in the 1940s, lived in the house from 1944 to 1955. The house is listed on the Glendale Register of Historic Resources.

Advance tickets are $30 for TGHS members and $40 for the general public. After Sept. 25, tickets are $35 for members and $45 for the public. Tickets and additional information may be obtained at www.GlendaleHistorical.org or www.GlendaleArts.org.

Guests will drive themselves to the featured neighborhood for docent-led tours of each home. The six homes are located within walking distance of each other. Some houses have stairs. Not all portions of the homes will be open for the tour. The tour will be held regardless of weather. Tickets are non-refundable.

For further information, contact events@glendalehistorical.org or call (818) 242-7447 or the Glendale Arts box office at (818) 243-2611, ext. 11.