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2018 CALIFORNIA PRESERVATION CONFERENCE MAY 17 –20, 2018 SHERATON PALO ALTO HOTEL ANNUAL SPONSORS CONFERENCE SPONSORS Cornerstone Lead Sponsor City of Palo Alto Capital Pediment Palo Alto Stanford Heritage Cello & Maudru Construction Stanford University Wiss, Janney, Elstner Associates, Inc. Cornice Pillar Architectural Resources Group Garavaglia Architecture Carey & Co., A TreanorHL Company Heritage Architecture & Planning CAW Architects Event Sponsors ELS Architecture and Urban Planning Filoli Historic House & Garden— EverGreene Architectural Arts Filoli Tour GPA Consulting Page & Turnbull—Plenary Session Historic Resources Group Newport Restoration Foundation— IS Architecture KHAW: West Kelly Sutherlin McLeod Architecture, Inc. Supporting Sponsors Page and Turnbull Chatten-Brown & Carstens LLP Simpson Gumpertz & Heger, Inc. City of Palo Alto Historic Resources TEF Design Board Commissioners Forell/Elsesser Engineers, Inc. ICF CONFERENCE PARTNERS Interactive Resources Liz’s Antique Hardware PGAdesign StoneSculpt Palo Alto Stanford Heritage Structural Focus Stanford University: The University Wooden Window Inc. Architect and Campus Planning Office, Arthur and Sally Zarnowitz Heritage Services, and the Stanford Historical Society Nonprofit Sponsors Olde Town Preservation Association University of Oregon Historic Preservation Program Situated in the heart of Silicon Valley, the 2018 California Preservation Conference explores the seismic changes facing our communities, and the deep roots that bind us together. The IN conference features cutting edge presentations, tours of the region’s most historic sites, and a DYNAMIC closing reception at the birthplace of Silicon Valley—the Hewlett Packard House and Garage. TIMES MOBILE WORKSHOPS presents an impressive collection of “reborn” historic May 17, 2:00 –5:00 pm T buildings with a variety of original and new functions, Downtown Walking Tour—the Nucleus of Palo Alto FRIDAY including creative offices in former laundries and Explore the historic core of downtown Palo Alto May 18, 2:00 –5:00 pm T bakeries, a museum in a former medical building, a centered on University Avenue. The walking tour will A Preservationist’s Toolbox: Hands-on Workshop Whole Foods store in a car dealership and many more. illustrate the expansion of the 1890’s business and for Non-Destructive Testing and Evaluation Presented by the experts involved in their revitali- residential district into the 20th century. The tour will Nondestructive testing and evaluation (NDE or NDT) zation, these examples illustrate the possibilities and follow the growth and cultural changes that continue are frequently used in historic preservation and little limitations of successful adaptive re-use. to shape the city, and includes the historic Ramona understood outside of the engineering profession. Architectural District (1924-1938) by Pedro De Lemos, When there are unanswered questions pertaining to the Medico-Dental building (1927) by Birge Clark, the the structural, architectural, or materials of a structure, STUDY TOURS First Church of Christ Scientist (1916), and the Stanford testing is a critical first step in evaluating conditions THURSDAY Theater (1925), a former movie palace. and planning for intervention. This workshop will examine and demonstrate a wide range of the latest May 17, 10:00 am –4:00 pm T SUNDAY tools for NDE. Stanford University—Resiliency through the Ages May 20, 10:00 am –4:00 pm T Multiple generations of campus architects, planners May 18, 2:00 –5:00 pm T Behind the Scenes at the Historic Filoli House and industry experts—as well as two significant and Gardens “Tract Homes with a Tailored Look”: Preserving the earthquakes—have continually reshaped Stanford This special behind-the-scenes architectural tour Character of Palo Alto’s Eichler Neighborhoods University’s campus. This study tour will introduce the explores Filoli, the spectacular 1915 “Georgian” estate Palo Alto contains over 2,500 Mid-Century Modern history of the campus, its recovery after the 1906 designed by Willis Polk, which belonged to two impor- residences built by Eichler Homes, Inc., the highest earthquake, and post 1989 work, including the tant families—the Bourns and the Roths—and is now number of any city in California. This workshop establishment of a seismic safety program that was owned by the National Trust for Historic Preservation includes a panel discussion and walking tour of instrumental in the preservation of significant historic and co-stewarded by the Filoli Center. The tour Greenmeadow, a National Register-listed Eichler buildings. The walking tour will feature the historic includes a boxed lunch and special lecture, with time neighborhood. Community members, homeowners, quad and adjacent buildings, and the major restora- to explore 16 acres of world-renowned gardens. city staff, and Eichler experts will discuss the history tion projects completed from 1989 through 2017. and distinctive characteristics of these homes, as well May 20, 10:00 am –12:30 pm T as the tools used to preserve them and the tensions May 17, 9:00 am –12:00 pm T Walking Tour of “Professorville” rising from development pressures in these low- Walking Tour of the Stanford Arboretum In the early 1890s, Stanford University faculty settled density neighborhoods. This stroll up Palm Drive through the historic Main a residential area that came to be known as Gates to the University will stop at the Angel of Grief, SATURDAY “Professorville.” It was near downtown, with easy Stanford Family Mausoleum, Arizona Garden, and the access to Stanford. This National Register District is May 19, 9:00 am –12:15 pm T Chinese Laborer Quarters archaeological research site. typified by three styles of architecture: Shingle, Colonia l The tour will be co-hosted by the Stanford Historical Documenting Hispanic Heritage From the Valley Revival, and Craftsman. Experience “Professorville” Society and docents will be present at all the stops. of Heart’s Delight to the Silicon Valley with Palo Alto Stanford Heritage tour guides. One of the earliest Spanish settlements in California, Docents will include University Archaeologist Laura Santa Clara Valley became one of the most significant Jones and the restoration leaders for the Arizona Mexican American communities in Northern California Garden project, Julie Cain and Christy Smith. WORKSHOPS as the hub of a regional network of migrant labor and settled worker communities. This program will visit May 17, 1:30 –5:30 pm T THURSDAY the sites of some community history projects, which Balancing Preservation at NASA Ames May 17, 10:00 am –5:00 pm T enlist community members as researchers, bilingual Research Center Keeping History Above Water: West oral history projects, and the collection of personal NASA Ames Research Center and Moffett Federal archives. Community members, researchers, and Airfield are some of Silicon Valley’s first high-tech KHAW: West: a joint program of the California Preservation project coordinators will share personal stories and research and design centers. This bus tour explores Foundation and the Newport Restoration Foundation . strategies for creating community-based and the challenges of balancing scientific research with Join the California Preservation Foundation for the first community-oriented preservation projects. historic preservation, interpreting levels of ever West Coast edition of Keeping History Above significance, and incorporating new uses and Water! This effort began in 2016 as a conference in May 19, 2:00 –5:00 pm T infrastructure into historic districts. Stops will include Newport, Rhode Island and has now expanded to Unwanted Heritage, Adaptive Re-Use & Homer the iconic Hangar One, Shenandoah Plaza, the vacant support continued dialogue on climate and cultural Avenue: A Walking Tour of Successful Adaptive Reuse International Telephone and Telegraph Building, and heritage across the world. This all day workshop will Cities across California possess “unwanted” historic wind tunnel facilities (subject to availability). This tour convene practitioners to discuss local, regional and resources—nonfunctional spaces that retain historic requires valid ID for access to restricted sites and nationwide practices specific to cultural resources and and architectural value. Homer Avenue in Palo Alto advanced notice of foreign-national participation. climate change. How can communities identify, prioritize and adapt historic places to the threats posed by May 18, 6:00 –7:15 pm T climate change and natural disasters? Participants will be President's Circle Reception at Frank Lloyd Wright's equipped with tools to integrate into their own practices. Arthur Mathews House TRACKS Topics will include cultural resource vulnerability assess- Spend a special evening at the Arthur Mathews House, ments, FEMA policies and Local Hazard Mitigation Plans, Machine Age to the Digital Age: designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, with landscape design site and community adaptation strategies, design by Thomas Church. This cocktail reception is for The Future of Modernism solutions, inventorying, risk messaging, and existing President’s Circle members and donors to CPF. To As modern and recent past resources advance institutional and policy barriers. Small group discussions become a President’s Circle member, join online at in age, practitioners face new challenges in survey will also foster a greater collective understanding of californiapreservation.org/ help/membership. and documentation, conservation of popular existing challenges