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Occidental College Response to Lummis Home Response to the Los Angeles Department of Recreation and Parks RFP for the Operation and Maintenance of the Lummis Home OCCIDENTAL COLLEGE June 10, 2014 Response to the Los Angeles Department of Recreation and Parks RFP for the Operation and Maintenance of the Lummis Home OCCIDENTAL COLLEGE June 10, 2014 INTRODUCTION El Alisal, the Charles Lummis House, is a historic treasure. But it is currently in need of a substantial amount of repair and restoration. Despite this deterioration, the historic structure retains the potential to become more than what it was even in its heyday. Beyond serving as a reminder of a rich history and an architectural amenity for the neighborhood, it could become a catalyst for local residents of Northeast Los Angeles to reclaim their history and heritage and, in the process, hone their own abilities to project their voices and visions for the future of our metropolis. The Lummis House could become a vital new civic institution for Los Angeles, dedicated to helping residents of Northeast Los Angeles, and throughout the city and the region, recover their own shared past. It is with this vision in mind that Occidental College respectfully offers here a deliberately unconventional response to the Department’s Dec. 3, 2013 Request for Proposals. We believe that an unconventional approach is appropriate to both the opportunity, and the challenges, raised by this nationally significant Historic-Cultural Monument. Careful study has led us to conclude that the terms of the RFP as currently drafted aren’t sufficient to bring about the kind of transformation that the Department clearly has in mind and which we wholeheartedly support. The proposed lease term of five years with a single option for another five is too short for any potential donor to support, nor any potential operating organization to take on, the significant expense and long-term challenges of weaving the Lummis House back into the fabric of the community, resurrecting its role as one of the city’s major public intellectual and cultural Occidental College Proposal for the Lummis House · 2 institutions, and realizing its capacity to celebrate the diversity and complexity of the history of Northeast Los Angeles and the city as a whole. We propose to provide here what we believe is a compelling long-term vision for the future of the Lummis House, building on the college’s long history of intrinsic student participation in research and in community-based engagement, particularly with local schools and cultural institutions. It is our hope that the Department will consider this submission an invitation to a further conversation about the possible terms that would create the essential conditions for lasting success. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Occidental proposes to create at the Lummis House a Institute for the History of Los Angeles, a center for study of Los Angeles history and culture with special emphasis on the diverse communities of Northeast Los Angeles and the larger city. This civic use flows naturally not only out of Charles Lummis’ exemplary enthusiasm for the region’s fascinating past and bright future as a great metropolis, but equally from his pioneering advocacy of the region’s existing distinctive character and culture, reflected in his profound respect for the region’s Latino and Native American inhabitants — the basis of what we today might term a “multicultural” understanding of Southern California society. We believe that, with proper restoration, the Lummis House could thereby serve the following civic functions: Public History Venue • Share local historical knowledge through the proposed Los Angeles Urban Studies Institute, incorporating Oxy students, staff, and faculty in community-based research and presentations. • Cultivate Occidental’s own students’ educational efforts and interactions with their larger society by prioritizing excellence, equity, community, and service — the four cornerstones of the college’s academic mission. • Build partnerships with city schools and local, regional, state and national organizations for volunteers, scholarship and curriculum development, advocacy and marketing, student internships, and other forms of support. • Partner in a network of historically and culturally significant properties along the Arroyo Seco and throughout Northeast Los Angeles. Occidental College Proposal for the Lummis House · 3 Cultural Resource • Offer regular public access to the house, with tours and access to exhibits, programs and performances. • Transform the Lummis House’s Museo into a rotating exhibit/gallery space. • Host lectures, film series, artistic performances, and other community-based events. • Provide workshops for the local community on local history, ecology, and similar topics appropriate to the house and its neighborhood. • Situate an artist/scholar in residence program, with an associated schedule of exhibitions/presentations. Public Gardens • Incorporate, if feasible, a community garden or other shared space into the property’s grounds. • Develop a drought-tolerant demonstration garden to assist local residents to re-imagine their own landscaping possibilities. • Explore reviving the annual garden open house event as a further environmental connection between the Lummis House’s open spaces and the community. • Play an active role in efforts to restore the Arroyo Seco watershed, drawing upon the college’s multidisciplinary experience over the past fifteen years in investigating, analyzing, and supporting the revitalization of the Los Angeles River. Taken together, these functions aim to restore the integral civic function of the Lummis House to the larger community, rehabilitating not merely the physical shell of the historic residence, but its larger cultural mission as well. In the process, the neighborhood, and the city as a whole, stands to gain a vital new institution in the Institute for the History of Los Angeles, which would promote a living, intercultural understanding of the ways our shared history can help inspire future visions of Los Angeles. 1 · FINANCIAL PLAN: RESTORATION AND OPERATING STRATEGIES The Lummis House is a magnificent work of architecture and a historical treasure, but even a perfunctory visual inspection of the premises shows that the extent and scope of the work needed to restore the house is extensive and costly [see section 5: Preservation and Restoration Plan]. Occidental College Proposal for the Lummis House · 4 Until the building envelope has been evaluated by qualified experts, it is not possible to accurately determine the full amount of investment required to renovate, restore and properly maintain the Lummis House, but it is clear that it would be substantial. For example, a few of the more obvious major areas of potentially significant expense include investigating the cause of, and developing a remediation plan for, the deep cracks in the south wall of the Comedor [dining room]; an assessment of the need for a significant seismic retrofit; an evaluation of the safety/useful lifespan of current utilities (electrical, gas, water, sewer) and of site drainage. We would greatly appreciate the technical cooperation of the Department in carrying out these detailed evaluations, which would then enable us to work with potential donors to fund this extensive work of physical rehabilitation. More crucially, Occidental would require an extended lease period in order to carry out these repairs and to reorient the property toward its proposed new civic function as a center for community-based historical engagement. Without a more practical long-term lease, any organization, no matter how civic minded or well respected, will find it as impossible as the Historical Society did to obtain firm commitments from foundations and other donors to invest in the long-term future of the facility. This fact has been reaffirmed in our own conversations with potential donors. Indeed, once these fundamental restoration and preservation tasks have been completed, Occidental proposes to operate the premises on a continuing, long-term basis as a site of scholarly-community interaction under the aegis of our proposed Institute for the History of Los Angeles. We would expect to fund this effort through a combination of donor recruitment, grant writing, and programs at the house that would generate an annual revenue stream, including weddings, photo shoots and other events. With an endowment approaching $400 million, the college has a proven track record of working with donors to craft lasting practical programs that can perpetuate our shared cultural legacy. Given the security of a longer lease, we will be able to pursue specific and ongoing financial support of the sort that can secure the operation of the Institute for the History of Los Angeles at the Lummis House as a vital cultural resource and community institution for future generations of Angelenos. Toward that end, Occidental has already engaged in preliminary discussions with community stakeholders such as the Historical Society of Southern California (HSSC), the Highland Park Heritage Trust, the Arroyo Seco Foundation, the Los Angeles Conservancy, and the National Trust for Historic Preservation about the Lummis House’s potential for the region. The response has been very encouraging thus far, indicating community support for a revitalization of the institution. Indeed, almost 100 local residents have already pledged to support a “Friends of the Lummis House” organization that would help guide our interactive planning process. Occidental
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