Pending Nominations

Pursuant to Section 4855(a) of the California Code of Regulations California Register of Historical Resources (Title 14, Chapter 11.5), the following nominations are scheduled for the May 9, 2025 State Historical Resources Commission (SHRC) quarterly meeting, taking place at 9:00 AM at Stanley Mosk Library and Courts Building, 914 Capitol Mall, Room 500, Sacramento, CA 95814. This meeting will also be held online via Zoom, and broadcast via Cal-Span. Dial-in access will also be available. Meeting notices and agendas will be posted ten days prior to the meeting date, and a Zoom link will be posted on approximately the same date to register for this meeting. Use the Zoom link to register only if you wish to provide testimony remotely at the meeting. If you plan to attend the meeting in person, you do not need to register.

Watch the meeting on CAL-SPAN if you wish to view the meeting but do not wish to provide public testimony.

Register via Zoom to attend the May 9, 2025 SHRC Meeting only if you wish to provide public testimony remotely at the meeting. Do not register for the Zoom meeting if you plan on attending the meeting in person.

The SHRC invites comments on the nominations from the public either in writing or at the scheduled public meeting. Copies of nominations are posted as PDF documents below. Written comments can be sent to State Historical Resources Commission, P.O. Box 942896, Sacramento, CA 94296-0001, or via email to calshpo.shrc@parks.ca.gov. Please include nomination name and hearing date in the email's subject line.

The order of comments for nominations under consideration during the Discussion and Action portion on the agenda will proceed as follows: The Commission will first hear from the nominator or his/her/their designee. The nominator or his/her/their designee will have ten (10) minutes to speak. The Commission will then hear from the property owner(s) or his/her/their designee. Each property owner or his/her/their designee of an individually nominated property will have ten (10) minutes to speak. Each property owner or his/her/their designee whose property is within the boundaries of a nominated district will have five (5) minutes to speak. Individuals representing local, state, federal, and tribal governments, will each have five (5) minutes to speak. Any member of the general public will have three (3) minutes to speak. Those members of the public who require a translator will be allocated twice the time otherwise defined. Within this stated order of commenters, those in the room will be heard from first and then those participating via Zoom or telephone.

Those providing comments about nominations that are on Consent Calendar, or comments related to other matters not on the agenda, will each have three (3) minutes to speak.

Presentations regarding agenda items shall be submitted to OHP staff at least seven (7) days prior to the meeting, and shall not go beyond the allowable time frame for the applicable comment period. Presentations, along with any other public comment to be presented to the SHRC for the May 9, 2025 meeting, must be received by 9:00 AM on Friday, May 2, 2025. Submit comments to CalSHPO.shrc@parks.ca.gov.

PLEASE NOTE

Complete and official listing of nominated properties scheduled for hearing at the above mentioned SHRC Meeting can be found on the meeting agenda via the SHRC Meeting Schedule and Notices page. The nominations on this page may not reflect the most current properties listed on the agenda.

Properties can be removed from the agenda by the State Historic Preservation Officer or the State Historical Resources Commission. No properties can be added to the agenda.

National Register of Historic Places nominations are considered drafts until listed by the Keeper.

California Register of Historical Resources nominations are considered drafts until listed or formally determined eligible for listing by the State Historical Resources Commission.

Calfornia Historical Landmarks and Points of Historical Interest are considered drafts until approved for listing by the State Historical Resources Commission and the Director of California State Parks.

Properties nominated to the National Register of Historic Places

Trujillo Adobe is a stabilized ruin of an adobe constructed by Antonio Teodoro Trujillo in 1862, located in Riverside. The property is associated with the Trujjillo family, who lived in the adobe for 95 years.

Westphal House is a 1930 summer residence built for Laura Russ Westphal, located near Lake Tahoe in Placer County. The building was designed by Thomas J. Kent Jr. and Andrew T. Hass of San Francisco in the Tudor Revival style, with design features specific to the Lake Tahoe region, to facilitate its use as a summer vacation residence.

Coloma Community Hall is a 1926 social hall constructed for the Coloma Grange, also known as Gold Trail Grange #452 Hall. The property is significant as a clubhouse and community hall in Coloma. In addition to the building itself, one contributing feature is a carronade, manufactured between 1790 and 1820, which, according to accounts documented by the Grange, was purchased by John Sutter from Fort Ross in 1841, and subsequently installed in Sutter's Fort.

Placer County Administrative Center is a complex of five hexagonal geodesic domes located in Auburn, Placer County, constructed in 1966. Designed by Robert B. Liles, the design of the building was inspired by the work of Richard Buckminster "Bucky" Fuller, to whom Liles worked as an assistant.

Arcadia Metal Products Administration Building is a headquarters and administration building located in Fullerton, CA, designed for the Arcadia Metal Products company by A. Quincy Jones and Frederick Emmons, featuring landscape design by Myrton Nott Purkiss. Arcadia Metal Products manufactured prefabricated sliding doors and windows of aluminum, and their office building was considered one of Jones & Emmons' most successful projects, combining Mid-century Modern style in an industrial office building, while featuring extensive use of the company's signature products.

North Beach Historic District is a mixed use neighborhood in San Francisco that was destroyed by the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake and Fire. The neighborhood was rebuilt, becoming a prominent commercial district associated with Italian Americans and Chinese Americans. In the mid 20th century, the neighborhood became associated with counterculture, arts, literature, poetry and theater, and is still the home of legendary San Francisco institutions including the Fugazi Theatre, City Lights Bookstore, Cafe Trieste, the Condor Club, and other iconic and recognizable San Francisco locations.

Frankel, Morris S. and Nadine E., House embodies the distinctive characteristics of the Modern Movement, a rare and extremely intact example of a Mid-Century Modern house by architects Rochlin & Baran. Constructed in 1961, the one-story, Y-shaped, steel and wood-framed house occupies an irregularly shaped flat parcel in a hillside residential neighborhood in the Brentwood community of Los Angeles. Based on an elongated hexagon, the Frankel House plan was influenced by Frank Lloyd Wright’s hexagonal Usonian designs. Commissioned by Dr. Morris S. Frankel, DDS and Nadine E. Frankel, the house did not change ownership until 1997 and has had no alterations since its construction.

North Star House (Additional Documentation) amends the nomination for the two-story Craftsman style house listed on the National Register in 2011. Located on a sloping, wooded site near Grass Valley, the house was designed by Julia Morgan for North Star Mine Superintendent Arthur de Wint Foote and his wife, author and illustrator Mary Hallock Foote. In addition to an expanded discussion of Hallock Foote’s importance and influence, the nomination includes information about Morgan’s association with design and construction of 127 Hostess Houses on military camps during World War I, for which North Star House is perceived as the prototype.

Sunset Headquarters is a 1951 office building designed by Cliff May in the California Ranch architectural style, situated on an approximately seven-acre parcel in Menlo Park. Associated with Sunset Magazine, a longstanding publication managed by the Lane publishing family that greatly influenced public perception of the western United States, the building is a prominent example of May’s application of the California Ranch architectural style to a commercial office building. The landscape designed by Thomas Dolliver Church includes the Sunset Garden consisting of a series of climate zones showcasing plants of the American West.

University High School Administration Building, the flagship and last remaining original building of a campus that opened in 1924, is two stories with a hip roof and irregular plan, designed in a combination of Late Victorian architectural styles, Romanesque Revival and Renaissance Revival. Located in a residential neighborhood in West Los Angeles, close to multiple colleges and universities, the building reflects the growth of the formerly independent city of Sawtelle and its subsequent consolidation with the City of Los Angeles and the development of the Sawtelle community, including its Japanese American population. As a property associated with Migration and Community Formation, the Administration Building meets the registration requirements of the Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in California, 1850-1995 Multiple Property Submission.

Wintersburg, a historic district on approximately four and a half acres in Huntington Beach, represents the surviving remnant of the former farming community of Wintersburg historically associated with Japanese settlement in the area in the early twentieth century and after World War II, and meets the registration requirements for Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in California, 1850-1995, in the context of Migration and Community Formation. Contributing buildings include the Spanish Colonial Revival style Japanese Presbyterian Church of Wintersburg, constructed in 1934, and three buildings associated with the C.M. Furuta farm that previously occupied the property—the Craftsman style Furuta House #1 and adjacent Furuta Barn, both constructed in 1912, and the Minimal Traditional style Furuta House #2, constructed in 1947.

The next State Historical Resources Commission meeting is scheduled for Friday, May 9, 2025. Nominations to be heard on the May 9, 2025 agenda will be posted after March 5, 2024.