Todd Renfrow owns a remodeling and home-building business, and one of the houses he planned to remodel in Bentonville ended up becoming home to his family.

He said he has "a passion for older homes."

"We wanted to create this home for someone, and in the process, we sold the home we were living in, and so we moved into this one," Renfrow said. "It would work well for our family, so we decided this would be a good one for us to keep."

The house was built around 1900 as a single-family residence, and the owner, Mr. Wilks, handpicked all the wood to build this house, Renfrow said. Wilks owned a lumber yard. About 50 or 60 years ago, another owner turned it into a multi-family residence with five or six units. There were six kitchens, bathrooms and bedrooms, he said.

Renfrow said when he bought the house in November 2012, he decided to convert it back into a single-family residence. Workers reconfigured some of the kitchens into bath areas and opened up a small bedroom and small kitchen to create a bigger kitchen. Staircases and walls were also opened up to create a better flow, he added. Renfrow's family moved in last August, and they are just finishing all the renovations. The current layout accommodates Renfrow, his wife and six children, and it includes five bedrooms, a library, family room, office, kitchen and breakfast room and two studio cottages outside.

The home is part of the Bentonville Stroll, a walking tour of downtown Bentonville homes. The tour will take place from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday and includes six homes. The event is presented by Crossland Construction Company Inc. and sponsored by the Benton County Historical Society and the Bentonville Library Foundation. Tickets can be purchased at the Benton County Historical Society or the Bentonville Convention and Visitors Bureau.

Leah Whitehead, president of the Benton County Historical Society, said in a May 5 email that the idea for the home tour came about when Brenda Compton, development director for the Bentonville Library Foundation, began brainstorming one day on how to best showcase the heritage and varied architecture of Bentonville.

"We decided on a walking tour, with guides, to better promote the history. Not only will participants be visiting six unique homes, they will be getting the history of the West Central Historical District," Whitehead said.

Proceeds from the tour will go toward projects of both nonprofit organizations, she said.

"The Historical Society is working to raise funds to digitize the historic county documents dating back to 1836. This is a large project, but one that must be done to preserve the documents for the future. The Bentonville Library Foundation will use the funds for children's programming," Whitehead said.

Renfrow will be at his home during the tour to answer questions about what is original in the house and what has been remodeled. There will also be "before" pictures displayed in each room. The Victorian home features its original siding, but Renfrow primed and repainted it. He said he was also able to salvage some of the original siding from the garage to finish out the places remodeled inside. During the remodel, workers found arithmetic books from the 1860s with assignments inside from the 1890s, he said. They also found items from the Bates family, which was responsible for the building of Bates Hospital, including check ledgers and inventory lists for medicine. He noted that check ledgers found in one area were from 1933.

Renfrow describes the interior furnishings of his house as "durable," adding that they don't have any one-of-a-kind antiques in the house where they're raising six children ages 19, 18, 15, 10, 6 and 4. Along with a remodeling business, Renfrow said he and his wife teach piano at the Bentonville Academy of Music. The three oldest children teach as well, and the family room is used as a teaching room, he said. The younger children are learning music and want to become music teachers in the future, he said.

Renfrow said what he loves about this house is "that we use every room every day."