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 August 7, 2026 State Historical Resources Commission (SHRC) quarterly meeting, taking place at 9:00 AM at the Stanley Mosk Library and Courts Building,914 Capitol Mall, Room 500, Sacramento, California 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, on the SHRC Meeting Schedule and Notices page. 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 remotely attend the August 7, 2026 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 August 7, 2026 meeting, must be received by 9:00 AM on Friday, July 31, 2026. 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
Reimers’ Stonehouse Terrace comprises the renovation of a free-standing, existing, stone-clad cottage, built in approximately 1910, and the 1977 addition of a two-story L-shaped building in the Modern style featuring deep overhangs, low hipped roofs, and a mix of stone, stucco, and wood cladding, recalling the work of Frank Lloyd Wright. The addition’s Modern design employs master architect Olof Dahlstrand’s repertoire of character-defining features and embodies his respect for the existing built fabric surrounding the property. With its landscaping and simple palette of natural materials, Dahlstrand’s work also recalls Carmel’s older allegiance to nature, simplicity, and rusticity.
Babcock, Russell E. and Virgie R., House occupies a triangular shaped parcel in the residential neighborhood of Mission Beach, San Diego. The two-story, 2,577 square foot irregularly shaped building was designed in the Organic/Expressionism style, identified locally as Organic Geometric. The house is composed of an irregular A-frame massing covered by steeply pitched roofing forms clad in copper metal sheeting. Built in 1959, an addition completed in 2006 was designed by the original architect, Kendrick Bangs Kellogg. The first work completed by Kellogg as a solo practitioner, the property is representative of both his early career development and his progression at the end of his career.
Firma Lodge No. 27 is a two-story social hall in central Vallejo, completed in 1917 in a simple interpretation of the Classical Revival style and occupied by Firma Lodge No. 27 of the Most Worshipful Prince Hall Free & Accepted Masons. Constructed by members of the 9th and 10th Cavalry regiments (also known as Buffalo Soldiers) of the Colored War Veterans of the Spanish-American War, the building was first used as a veterans’ social hall and a fraternal hall for the local African American community. As Vallejo’s African American population grew, the building served as a central hub for Black fraternal, civic, social, and religious organizations, offering vital community and housing support.
Woman’s Building, designed by architect Myron Hunt in the Beaux Arts style, was constructed in 1914 as an office for the Standard Oil Company Sales Department. Standard Oil occupied the building until 1928, followed by a series of owners and varied tenant use. From 1975 to 1991, the property was home to the groundbreaking feminist art collective known as the Woman’s Building that greatly influenced the development and evolution of the feminist art movement in Los Angeles and nationwide. The building is recognized for its association with second wave feminism, and in particular for its distinctive role in fostering the creation and dissemination of feminist art.
El Dorado Elementary School in Sacramento’s East Sacramento neighborhood embodies the characteristics of the Sacramento School District Architectural and Engineering Commission’s distinctive architecture program of the 1920s as well as of the Spanish Revival style of architecture. The main building (1921-1930) was designed by James Dean of Dean and Dean, a master architect who was influential in the design of Sacramento-area schools of the era as the program’s primary architect. His brother Charles F. Dean designed the auditorium (1939) connected to the main volume by a curved hyphen. Dean and Dean architect Earl Barnett designed the mural depicting Coronado’s search for gold on the west wall of the auditorium.
Morro Elementary School includes the Mission Revival style Main Building, Craftsman-detailed Music Building, and two Mid-Century Modern style Classroom Buildings. The 1936 Main Building, designed by regionally significant architect Louis N. Crawford, reflects Mission Revival styling as adapted to public school construction; the 1954 Classroom Buildings, designed by regionally significant architect Frank Wynkoop, embody Mid-Century Modern principles and the finger-plan layout characteristic of postwar educational architecture. Morro Elementary School served as a key civic and educational institution throughout the Great Depression, World War II, and postwar expansion, supporting the town’s growing population and serving as a venue for educational and community gatherings.
Bellaire Tower, a twenty-two-story, steel- and reinforced-concrete Art Deco residential tower completed in 1930, exhibits the tripartite massing characteristic of the style, with an ornate Churrigueresque-inspired double-height base, a simplified vertical shaft punctuated by bays and spandrel panels, and an embellished stepped-back capital crowned by a decorative parapet. Herman C. Baumann, recognized as an Architect of Merit by the City of San Francisco, had a prolific practice that specialized in large apartment buildings, hallmarked by his emphasis on ceremonial entrances and finely detailed common areas. The building stands as one of Baumann’s tallest and most distinguished residential designs in the San Francisco Bay Area and is known as the Jewel of Russian Hill for its commanding hilltop presence and refined architectural composition.
Glory of the Seas Hall, also known as the Seamanship Building of the United States Maritime Service Officers School, in Alameda, was designed to train Merchant Marine officers in navigation and seamanship skills during World War II, completed in 1943. The building is intended to physically resemble the bridge of a Liberty Ship, the most likely vessel that trainees would serve on during the war, and is similar in style to other landlocked naval training vessels, like the USS Recruit, AKA "Neversail," at the Naval Training Center in San Diego. The hall was designed by architect Harry Bruno, principal architect of the United States Maritime Service Officers School of which the building was a part.
Sam McDonald Park (African Americans in California MPDF) is a 430 acre portion of a San Mateo County park located in La Honda. This property is associated with African American philanthropist and conservationist Emanuel Bruce "Sam" McDonald, who bequeathed his property to Stanford University at the time of his death for use as a community and recreation park. The park features, including tent camping sites, hiking trails, and park headquarters, are contributing resources. The property was transferred from Stanford to San Mateo County Parks in 1958; the property is significant both for its association with McDonald, who owned the property from 1919 until his death in 1957, and San Mateo County's development of the property into a park dediated to Mr. McDonald, concluding in 1970.
PG&E Historic Era Electrical Infrastructure MPDF is a statewide Multiple Property Document that documents the significance of electrical infrastructure properties associated with Pacific Gas & Electric Company and its predecessor companies, from 1849 until 1974. These properties include buildings designed in Beaux Arts, Neoclassical, Italian Renaissance Revival, Gothic Revival, and other architectural styles of the period. Eligible property types include dams, storage reservoirs, water conveyance resources, powerhouses, residential housing and camps, historic districts of hydroelectric generation and transmossion properties, natural gas and steam generation plants, nuclear power plants, transmission facilities, distribution facilities, and single-building substations.
Cordelia Substation (PG&E Historic Era Infra MPDF) is an electrical substation designed in the Beaux Arts style, located in Fairfield. The substation was designed by Ivan Frickstad for Pacifc Gas & Electric (PG&E), following construction of the Drum-Spalding Hydroelectric Project, in 1913.
Thomson-Diggs Company Building is a hardware warehouse associated with the Thomson-Diggs Company, a national hardware distributor, located in downtown Sacramento. The property was designed by architect Clarence Cuff and is directly associated with the working life of State Senator Marshall Diggs, a principal of the company. The company building was located adjacent to Sacramento's R Street industrial corridor. The building originally had a plain concrete exterior, which has been modified by application of exterior face brick, but the building still retains historic integrity sufficient to convey its significance.
Grant Union High School is a high school located in the Del Paso Heights neighborhood of Sacramento, completed in phases between 1934 and 1940 by architects Harry Devine and Charles Dean. The school is designed in the Spanish Colonial Revival style, and its design reflects architectural responses to passage of the Field Act, a California law which mandated specific levels of earthquake safety for school construction. The reinforced concrete design of the school, compliant with the Field Act, has allowed continuous use of Grant Union High School for education functions when similar schools built only a few years earlier were declared no longer safe for educational use.
National Register properties to be amended or removed
Alkali Flat Central Historic District (Additional Documentation) amends the existing Alkali Flat Central historic district, changing the status of one building from contributing to non-contributing, due to its construction taking place after the end of the district's period of significance.
The next State Historical Resources Commission meeting is scheduled for Friday, August 7, 2026. Nominations to be heard on the August 7, 2026 agenda will be posted after June 8, 2026.