“It will be a moving cocktail party, of sorts,” says organizer Larry Waisanen.

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Attendees — “international travelers”, if you will — share a champagne toast before breaking off to visit four separate Swiss Avenue homes. Each culturally themed home will feature signature food and drink from one of the countries. Waisanen, for example, will turn his home into Turkey for the night.

“It should be great fun. My wife and I lived in Istanbul, so we are familiar with [the Turkish tradition],” he says.

The hosts are going to great lengths to provide visitors an authentic and enjoyable evening-long getaway, he says. The tour — a combined effort of volunteers from Peak Suburban Addition, Munger Place, Junius Heights and Swiss Avenue — will end with coffee on the lawn of one of the homes.

The Swiss Avenue Historic District provided seed money to help fund the event, which benefits the revitalization of Buckner Park, through the Friends of Buckner Park organization.

“Buckner Park in the 1920s was the center of social and cultural life for the East Dallas neighborhood,” Waisanen says.

Since the early ’80s, many of the historic homes in the neighborhood have been restored, but the park has faded. The Friends group aims to raise funds and utilize City bond money to revitalize the park and make it clean and safe.