Every dollar from this year's Tour of Homes tickets is headed to 7 Cedarwood Avenue. That's the former Fort Screven Fire Station, now the Tybee Arts Center. The City of Tybee Island's event page says all proceeds from the Historic Preservation Commission's 2026 Tour of Homes will support restoring it.
Two hours after the homes open that Saturday, Tybee Tour de Art starts on the same end of the island. The Tybee Arts Association, which is housed in that building, puts that event on. So the two events on Saturday, November 21 have separate tickets, separate hours, and separate maps, but both trace back to the same old firehouse. Knowing that helps when you plan the day.
The building both tours point to
The fire station was built to serve Fort Screven. It has been put to several uses since, and today it houses the Tybee Arts Association and the Black Box Theater. The Tybee Arts Association is a 501(c)(3) arts nonprofit, incorporated in 1996.
The building's historic windows are the item that has a price attached. In a presentation to the city, the Historic Preservation Commission described a window sponsorship program. The idea is to restore the original windows instead of replacing them. Each window has a $2,500 sponsorship, and sponsors get a brass plate engraved with their name. The committee also floated selling t-shirts and Christmas ornaments that feature the fire station. This year the Tour of Homes points its proceeds at the same building. City staff tied the tour to the station's restoration in a March 2025 update.
That's the reason this year's tour sits where it does. Most of the 10 stops are a short trolley ride from the building they're raising money for.
The ten stops, and the one with a deadline
The tour runs 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. It has no set start and no fixed route. Two air-conditioned trolleys run hop-on, hop-off service between stops all day, and the city says you're welcome to bike or drive instead.
| Stop | What to know |
|---|---|
| 15 N. Campbell Avenue | Private residence |
| 34 Van Horn Avenue | Open 10 a.m. to noon only |
| 8 Logan Street | Private residence |
| 5 Pearwood Avenue | Private residence |
| 14 8th Place | Private residence |
| 1208 2nd Avenue | Private residence |
| Tybee Post Theater | Built in 1930 as a movie house for Fort Screven soldiers |
| The Barracks | Fort Screven landmark |
| 31 Officers Row | Fort Screven address |
| Tybee Island Lighthouse | 31 Meddin Drive |
Only one stop has its own hours. Van Horn closes at noon, two hours into a six-hour day. Plan your first trolley ride around it. The Tybee Post Theater is in the heart of the Fort Screven Historic District. It's the same district the fire station was built to serve, which is why this list reads like a walk through the old post.
Tickets are sold through a Tybee Island Main Street campaign page. It limits the tour to 150 guests, and a ticket was listed at $63 when we checked. Since this is published a little over two weeks before the tour, check the page before you plan around that price or count on a spot. Volunteer sign-up runs through a separate campaign page.
Tour de Art fills the afternoon on U.S. 80
Tybee Tour de Art runs noon to 5 p.m., with about 50 local artists set up at north-end shops, bars and restaurants. It works as a spread-out market. Artists are hosted at separate businesses, and maps guide you from one to the next. The first one took place November 19, 2022.
The 2026 listing names seven host locations. The addresses below come from last year's directory for the November 15, 2025 market, since the 2026 listing gives names only:
- Seawolf Tybee, 106 South Campbell Avenue
- Irritable Pelican Gallery, 801 1st Street
- Chapel by the Sea, 1114 U.S. Highway 80
- Zunzibar, 1115 U.S. Highway 80
- The Shoppes at 1207, 1207 U.S. Highway 80
- The Lot at 1207, 1209 U.S. Highway 80
- Tybee Oaks, 1213 U.S. Highway 80, home to Huc-A-Poos, Tybean and Inferno, which is in Unit H
Five of the seven sit within the 1100 and 1200 blocks of U.S. 80. Seawolf on South Campbell is on the same street as the tour stop at 15 N. Campbell Avenue. That makes it the most natural place to hop between the two events.
How the two schedules fit on one Saturday
- 10 a.m. to noon. Start at 34 Van Horn Avenue while it's open. Only the Tour of Homes is running during this window.
- Noon to 4 p.m. Both events are open. Fit the Post Theater, The Barracks, 31 Officers Row and the Lighthouse around the residences, and drop into Seawolf or Irritable Pelican Gallery when your route passes them.
- 4 p.m. to 5 p.m. The homes have closed, but Tour de Art runs one more hour. That's the time for the U.S. 80 cluster, from Chapel by the Sea up to Tybee Oaks.
The evening stays busy too. The island's event calendar lists Alone & Invincible, a tribute to Heart and Pat Benatar, for November 21, and a John Prine tribute concert the next day.
Street work overlaps the tour route
If you're driving between stops, there's one complication this month. WTOC reported that Georgia Power is upgrading power lines and poles on Tybee in two phases. The first phase covers Butler Avenue from 6th to 18th streets, plus the connecting streets, from October into January 2027. The second phase is on the north side and was set to start in early November and wrap up by February 2027. The streets Georgia Power listed for that phase are Second Avenue, Wrenwood Drive, Solomon Avenue, Van Horne Avenue, Pulaski Street and Meddin Drive.
That list overlaps the tour map. One stop is on 2nd Avenue, one is on Van Horn Avenue, and the Lighthouse is on Meddin Drive. Georgia Power asked drivers to use caution around active work areas, and said affected customers would get notice by mail ahead of time. If you live on one of those streets and have tour guests parking nearby, that mailed notice is the one to look for.
The rest of the north end's November
November 21 is the busiest day for the old Fort Screven area, but the calendar around it runs through several of the same places.
The Tybee Island Kite Festival for Parkinson's Disease is at North Beach on November 7. Registration runs 11 a.m. to noon and the festival runs noon to 3 p.m., with gumbo and vendors. The fifth annual Tybee Post Music Fest runs November 6 and 7. The Tybee Island Seafood Fest is an island-wide restaurant celebration from November 8 to 15. It includes an Oyster Roast & Lowcountry Boil at Hotel Tybee on November 13 and a day-long festival at the pier and pavilion on November 14, from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. On November 20, the night before the tours, LaTraia Savage plays the Tybee Post Theater.
A week after the tours, Huc-A-Poos at Tybee Oaks hosts a Tour de Art stop and then becomes a host again. Huc-A-Poos and the Hall family put on the 18th annual Pickle Run on November 28, a 5K that supports Ronald McDonald House Charities of the Coastal Empire. That evening, the Tree Lighting Ceremony runs from 6 to 7 p.m. at the Strand Parking Lot, 1 Strand Avenue. After that the season moves toward Tybrisa Street. The Christmas Parade of Lights runs December 11 at 6:30 p.m. from 4th Street to Tybrisa. The Main Street Tybee Holiday Market follows on December 12, from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. in the 16th Street lot off Tybrisa.
On November 21, though, the Tour of Homes is raising money for 7 Cedarwood Avenue, and the association housed there is running Tour de Art. Anyone who wants to help with the windows beyond buying a ticket can start with the Tybee Arts Association.
Old Fort Screven houses like the ones on this year's tour are a big part of what we love about Tybee. If you live on the north end and wonder how your own home compares, the team at Vaden Realty Group is happy to talk it through. Start with our Get Home Value tool, and we'll follow up with a conversation about your street.