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June 2013 • Vol 11 No 2 and the Winner Is...A Tour of Award Winning Places Along a Lushly Landscaped Central Courtyard Next to Mary Hotchkiss Park Nonprofit Org U.S. Postage PAID P.O. Box 653 Santa Monica, California 90406-0653 Santa Monica,CA Permit No. 36 IN THIS ISSUE: p1 And the Winnner is... Preservation Funding p2 Message from the President International Visitors p3 Volunteer Profile: Tom Cleys Save the Civic Auditorium Remembering Gussie Moran p4 A Sassy Soiree Nick Gabaldon Day p5 End of the Mother Road Route 66: The Allure of the Road Santuario San Lorenzo Dedicated p6 Two New Landmarks USC Preservation Summer School Summer Preservation Events p8 June 2 Tour Information And the Winner Is... A Tour of Award Winning Places Highlighting A Decade of Preservation Awards SUNDAY, JUNE 2 12noon to 5pm TICKETS: $40/$30 Members Purchase online at www.santamonicaconservancy.org A limited number of tickets will be available at check-in on Civic Center Drive, south side of the Civic Center Presenting Sponsor: Questions? Parking Structure. Parking in the Send email to structure is free for 30 minutes, [email protected] $5 maximum. leave a message at 310-496-3146 deasy/penner&partners www.homeasart.com NEWS June 2013 • Vol 11 No 2 And the Winner is...A Tour of Award Winning Places along a lushly landscaped central courtyard next to Mary Hotchkiss Park. The property was designated as a Santa Monica Landmark in 1990 and divided into condominiums in 1993. Barnum Hall, a 1930’s gem, built as a Works Progress Administration (WPA) proj- ect on the Santa Monica High School cam- pus. The auditorium, restored and renovated as a public performance space, is a striking example of Streamline Moderne architecture with interior artwork by Stanton McDonald Wright. Given/Dennis Residence, 2013 Renovation Award. And finally, we are very privileged to offer oin us on Sunday, June 2, when the a contemporary open plan. tours of the Pasqual Marquez Family JConservancy presents a self-guided tour Cemetery one of the few remaining vestiges highlighting a decade of Preservation Awards. TheBaxter Residence, an unusual historic of our Mexican heritage. The cemetery, part Docents at each site will describe this select home from the first decade of the twentieth of the 1839 Rancho Boca de Santa Monica group of award-winning places among Santa century which was saved from demolition land grant to Francisco Marquez and Ysidro Monica’s most extraordinary and inspiring by its current owners. The house was moved Reyes, is now preserved and protected after preservation accomplishments: across town to Sunset Park and sensitively re- decades of struggle. See page 5 for an article stored. It was designated as a Santa Monica about the celebration of the newly landscaped An Ocean Park Craftsman home built in Structure of Merit in 1999. garden in front of the cemetery. 1915 which received the 2013 Renovation Award. The exterior has been carefully re- Hollister Court, a collection of Craftsman For ticket purchase information and other de- stored while the interior was reinvented with bungalows from the early 1900s, grouped tails of the tour, see page 8. A Step Forward for Preservation Funding reservation as a “community benefit” in our position was that, if the project moved Planning Commissions, Planning staff, and PCity development agreements moved a forward, funding for preservation should be members of City Council to propose that a step forward in April as the Planning Com- included in the agreement. small portion of the total community benefits mission forwarded the Century West Part- This positive vote was the culmination of associated with development agreements ners proposal for 1318 2nd Street on to months of effort by the Conservancy. The might begin to address the needs stated in the City Council with a recommendation that rationale for inclusion in the agreement was the Historic Preservation Element. $25,000 of approximately $500,000 in com- stipulation in the Land Use and Circulation Examples include: munity benefit funding be allocated to histor- Element (LUCE) that preservation was one • A Preservation Resource Center for the ic preservation. of five priorities for potential community community at the landmark Shotgun The project is a 4-story mixed-use building benefits, as well as the fact that many of House and involves the demolition of a property listed the highest priorities set forth in the City’s • Heritage education in our schools in the current Historic Resources Inventory 2002 Historic Preservation Element remain • A program to support heritage tourism as a potential contributor to previously unrealized. Seeing that current budget • Inclusion of historic and cultural identified historic districts. The Landmarks constraints limit the City’s ability to make information in the Downtown Commission approved demolition because its progress against these priorities, we have been Wayfinding Program members did not see the building as having working with members of the Landmarks and FUNDING continues on page 6 the level of significance that would merit consideration as an individual landmark. The Save the Civic inside! SEE PAGE 3 Conservancy did not advocate for the project; www.smconservancy.org OUR MISSION Message from the President Carol Lemlein The Santa Monica Conservancy works to promote widespread understanding and few months ago, when we made our public announcement of appreciation of the cultural, social, economic Athe capital campaign, we described a vision of the future impact and environmental benefits of historic of our work in historic preservation on our community. Wouldn’t you preservation. Through educational programs, like to see a Santa Monica where community members, but most of all assistance and advocacy, the Conservancy reinforces the importance of preserving the owners, architects, realtors and developers, know whether a property historic resources of Santa Monica’s unique has potential historic value, and appreciate its special attributes? urban landscape. Where owners of historic properties are aware of incentives available to landmark owners, and understand that landmarked structures are not frozen in time, but are adaptable, with sensitive modification, to changing needs? Where THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS demolition requests for such properties are rare? Where public officials support enactment and Our board comes from neighborhoods implementation of effective preservation protections and incentives? Where schoolchildren throughout the city: learn about the City’s architectural heritage and historic places and the importance of Carol Lemlein, President Susan McCarthy, Vice-President preserving them? John Zinner, Vice-President We are very close to being able to start construction on the Preservation Resource Center! Tom Cleys, Treasurer Once completed, it will provide our community with a place to come for assistance in Sherrill Kushner, Secretary understanding our architectural heritage and historic places, and in making use of the benefits Bruce Cameron Mike Deasy and incentives associated with their preservation. Resources at the Center will help residents Kaitlin Drisko identify ways to conserve the energy, values and craftsmanship of earlier times that are Michael W. Folonis, FAIA embodied in historic properties. Mario Fonda-Bonardi We’ve had tremendous support from our Board and members, and other generous individuals Nina Fresco and businesses. We are also grateful for grants from the Ralph M. Parsons Foundation, the Chris Gray National Trust for Historic Preservation, the Friends of Heritage Preservation, and Los Angeles David Kaplan Ruthann Lehrer County, among others. In-kind contributions have included City of Santa Monica for site Laurel Schmidt preparation and permit costs; legal services by Harding, Larmore, Kutcher and Kozal, LLP; Emeritus: project architectural services by Mario Fonda-Bonardi, AIA; preservation architect services Ken Breisch by Peyton Hall, FAIA, of Historic Resources Group; and general contracting by George Doris Sosin Minardos of Minardos Group. We hope to begin construction this summer, enabling us to open the Preservation Resource HOW TO CONTACT Center early in 2014. THE CONSEVANCY If you’re a member or a donor, thank you! We encourage you to reach out to your friends Phone: (310) 496-3146, leave a message. and neighbors asking them to join you in supporting the Conservancy. Our June 2 tour is a Website: www.smconservancy.org great way to introduce them to us. E-mail: [email protected] If you aren’t a member yet, wouldn’t you like to join us? Mail: Santa Monica Conservancy P.O.Box 653 Santa Monica, CA 90406 Conservancy Hosts MEMBERSHIPS International Visitors The Santa Monica Conservancy exists because of the involvement and generosity of people oard President Carol Lemlein met in like you. Please help strengthen our voice for BApril with a delegation of archeologists, preserving Santa Monica’s architectural and historians, and museum experts from Libya cultural heritage by becoming a member. who were touring Southern California as part of a project titled “Archeology and Cultural See page 7 for membership information. Heritage Preservation.” The meeting, held in the Rapp Saloon on Conservancy President Carol Lemlein shows Libyan dignataries around Santa Monica’s historic sites. THE NEWS STAFF 2nd Street, was organized by the International Alice Allen Visitors Council of Los Angeles, a non- of the Conservancy, as well as the Preservation Ruthann Lehrer profit organization that implements the U.S. Resource Center project. She then led the Carol Lemlein Department of State’s International Visitor visitors on a brief tour of
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