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 February 7, 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 February 7, 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 February 7, 2025 meeting, must be received by 9:00 AM on Friday, January 31, 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

Bungalow Haven Historic District, a small residential district in the Lower Riviera neighborhood of Santa Barbara, was developed circa 1888 to 1933. Single-story bungalows characterize the 28.5-acre district, a majority designed in the Craftsman and Spanish Colonial Revival styles. The neighborhood reflects changing trends in architecture, town planning, and transportation, including the expansion of the city’s streetcar line, and subsequently, the introduction of affordable mass-produced automobiles. Improvements to the city’s infrastructure made practical the development of this modest working-class neighborhood, critical to Santa Barbara’s economic viability by establishing a place for the working and middle classes to live and prosper.

Fisk’s Mill Landing Historical and Archaeological District encompasses 398 acres along the Sonoma County coast within Salt Point State Park and adjacent waters within Stewarts Point State Marine Reserve and Greater Farallones National Marine Sanctuary. Contributing sites include both archaeological remains and remnants of collapsed buildings all associated with the use of Fisk’s Mill as a doghole port, an individual landing within an interrelated network of several coastal enterprises within Sonoma and Mendocino Counties. Resources associated with the transportation network represent an established center of business and local community necessary for the doghole port’s success and longevity.

Bob Hope Patriotic Hall, designed in the Italian Renaissance Revival style, is located in south Los Angeles where the west-facing ten-story building stands out amidst its low-rise surroundings. From its inception, Patriotic Hall has been a dynamic and supportive venue for approximately 200 veterans’ organizations since the building was completed in 1926. Owned by the County of Los Angeles and designed by Allied Architects Association of Los Angeles, the building was first championed by Civil War veterans. Historically known as Patriotic Hall, in 2004, the building was renamed “Bob Hope Patriotic Hall” to recognize the honorary veteran’s fifty years of service in entertaining the troops.

Los Angeles City Hall, completed in 1928, is a thirty-two-story municipal building, eclectic in its architecture and monumental in scale, composed of three distinct masses totaling approximately 856,000 square feet. In a modern interpretation of the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, the soaring central tower volume ascends to a ceremonial room with exterior observation deck, all capped by a pyramidal stepped roof. Incorporating elements of Art Deco, Neoclassical Revival, Mediterranean Revival, and other idioms into a new modern style, City Hall was a major inspiration for other civic and institutional buildings across the country, as well as the PWA Moderne style that dominated American institutional design during the 1930s.

Nursery School for Visually Handicapped Children, in the East Hollywood area of Los Angeles, has a two-story Mid-Century Modern main building designed by master architect Paul R. Williams. The school was founded in 1938 by members of the Delta Gamma Fraternity of Women, which adopted aid to the blind as their primary mission. The main building, one of the very few schools designed by Williams, was constructed as the permanent home of the Nursery School in 1951 and represents his custom of donating or reducing his fee for projects that intersected with his social beliefs. In 1965, the school’s name changed to the Blind Children’s Center.

Sandcliff, a midcentury modern garden apartment condominium complex constructed in phases from 1960 to 1964, is located in south Palm Springs. Fourteen one-story multi-family buildings—two duplexes and twelve pinwheel-shaped triplexes—encompass forty residential units. The property represents a pivotal period of midcentury community planning in the city when residential development began moving away from primarily single-family residential living of the wealthy to embrace multi-family development and innovative building types that catered to a growing middle and upper middle-class population of homebuyers. Condominiums placed the allure of the Palm Springs leisure lifestyle within economic reach.

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.

Washington Elementary School is located in a residential Ventura neighborhood and consists of three contributing buildings, the Main Building, Auditorium, and Bungalow. The property is significant for its association with the history of education in Ventura and the impact of the Field Act on 1930s school design, a good and rare example of an educational building redesigned in response to earthquake safety concerns. Locally prominent architect Harold E. Burket specialized in schools and other institutional buildings throughout Southern California.

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 the city of Menlo Park. Associated with Sunset Magazine, a longstanding publication managed by the Lane publishing family that greatly influenced public perception of the West, 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.

Alf's Blacksmith Shop is a one-story, rectangular timber light industrial building constructed in 1890, located in Daggett, San Bernardino County. The property is associated with borax mining in the Mojave Desert, and the working life of prominent local entrepreneur and businessman Seymore Alf.

Cabrillo Ferry is a ferryboat designed in 1965 by prominent maritime figure Oakley J. Hall, owner of San Diego Maritime Construction and the Star & Crescent Boat Company, where the Cabrillo was built and operated as a San Diego ferryboat. The boat was the only craft personally designed by Hall, who took a personal interest in the craft, including ordering its lengthening by 20 feet shortly before his death in 1968.

Harrower Laboratory and Clinic is a complex of three buildings constructed between 1921 and 1924 in the Beaux Arts style, located in Glendale, Los Angeles County. The property is significant for its association with early institutional development and medical facilities in the City of Glendale, and association with Dr. Henry Harrower, a nationally recognized endocrinologist, who directed this facility from 1921 until 1948.

North Beach Historic District is a mixed-use, residential and commercial neighborhood located between San Francisco's Financial District, Telegraph Hill, Russian Hill, and Chinatown, principally along Columbus Avenue. The property is associated with San Francisco's reconstruction following the 1906 Earthquake and Fire, cultural significance for its association with Italian and Chinese communities, Bohemian and Beat writers and counterculture of the 20th century, LGBTQ+ history, and architecture, including the work of a large number of master architects.

Properties nominated to the California Register of Historical Resources

Armenian Genocide Martyrs Monument

The next State Historical Resources Commission meeting is scheduled for Friday, February 7, 2025. Nominations to be heard on the February 7, 2025 agenda will be posted after December 4, 2024.