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 November 7, 2024 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 November 7, 2024 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 or comments related to other matters not pertaining to nominations will each have three (3) minutes to speak.

Presentations shall be submitted at least 7 days prior to the meeting and shall not go beyond the allowable time frame for the applicable comment period.

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

Ballard Adobes—originally two nineteenth century adobe buildings, conjoined together and added to over the years—appears to be an eclectically detailed, one-story, California Ranch Style, single-family residence with a rambling plan defining an irregular, T-shaped footprint. One of the earliest stagecoach stations along the Coast Line Stage Company route in the Santa Ynez Valley, the property is a rare surviving example of California adobe architecture with early weatherization.

Dry Lakes Plateau (Additional Documentation and Boundary Increase) renames the district using a traditional Numu toponym, expands the boundaries of the district, adds six additional contributing sites, and recognizes the district as a Traditional Cultural Place. The boundary increase, which adds 630 acres of privately owned land and an additional twenty acres of BLM land, is necessary to include all the identified sites associated with traditional cultural and procurement activities.

United States Post Office—Main Street Branch was constructed in Placerville in 1939 as part of the Work Projects Administration and President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal Program. Designed by Louis A. Simon, Office of the Supervising Architect for the U.S. Treasury, the building retains the Forest Genetics mural created by Tom E. Lewis in 1941 under the auspices of the Federal Works Treasury Section of Fine Arts.

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.

African Americans in California, 1850-1974, Multiple Property Submission establishes a preliminary framework to identify and designate places in California associated with Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) communities. The Multiple Property Documentation Form (MPDF) compliments and builds upon local historic context statements associated with African Americans in cities throughout California, national theme studies focusing on African American history, and scholarly research. The documentation form includes four associated historic contexts: Making a Nation, Making a Democracy, Making a Living, and Making a Life, each with multiple sub-themes, and individual property types associated with each. The following two nominations are nominated under the cover of this Multiple Property Submission.

St. Paul African Methodist Episcopal Church, Santa Barbara includes the main church building, designed in the Carpenter Gothic style and built in 1915, the Mission Revival parsonage, and the Craftsman style Fellowship Hall and Classroom. The property is associated with the oldest African American congregation in Santa Barbara, and s nominated under cover of the African Americans in California, 1850-1974, Multiple Property Submission.

Southern Pacific 16th Street Station and Tower consists of a 21,000 square foot reinforced concrete Beaux Arts passenger depot built for Southern Pacific Railroad and designed by Chicago architect Jarvis Hunt in the Beaux-Arts style, along with the adjacent two-level concourse with elevated steel interurban platform structure and adjacent signal tower. This depot served the city of Oakland from 1912, and is directly associated with the life and work of C.L.Dellums, who became President of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters. The property is nominated under cover of the African Americans in California, 1850-1974, Multiple Property Submission.

Marconi/Synanon Tomales Bay Historic District Amendment is an amendment to the existing Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company of America Historic District, expanding its boundaries, areas of significance and period of significance to include buildings constructed on the site, and historic events taking place at the site, from 1964 to 1975, associated with Synanon, a service-oriented utopian community and drug rehabilitation treatment facility, and with important examples of the Third Bay Tradition architectural style, as rendered why Ellis Kaplan and William F. Olin.

Ryan Historic District, located in eastern Death Valley, is a complex including a central core of buildings, two mine complexes, the remains of two railroads, a network of trails and roads, and archaeological deposits associated with borax mining, Death Valley tourism, film & television production, and the Civil Defense movement, sitting at 3,000 feet elecation on the western slopes of the Greenwater Range. The district encompasses 107 acres, with 22 contributing buildings, 16 sites, 22 structures, and 1 object, 1 non-contributing buiding and 1 non-contributing structure.

Properties nominated to the California Register of Historical Resources (Removal)

1951-1/2 Adair Street, in the city of Los Angeles, is a two-story single-family vernacular residence of the I-House type, built in 1880 when the house was situated in a rural area consisting of farms, open land, and little residential development. Today, the building is located in a developed residential neighborhood, and was moved to the rear half of its lot in 1927.

National Register Nomination Revised in Response to Return Comments

Pursuant to § 36 CFR 60.6(w), the following nomination is available for review and comment before resubmittal to the Keeper of the National Register. The Keeper’s review of the original nomination identified an eligible historic district. The nomination was returned and revised to strengthen arguments for listing under the criteria and levels of significance identified. Written comments can be sent to State Historic Preservation Officer, P.O. Box 942896, Sacramento, CA 94296-0001, or via email to calshpo.shrc@parks.ca.gov. Please include nomination name in the email's subject line. If sending a letter of support or objection via email, it is not necessary to send a hardcopy letter as well. If you submitted a letter previously, it is already part of the nomination file.

Patsiata Historic District, encompassing approximately 186 square miles in Inyo County’s southern Owens Valley, includes Patsiata (Owens Lake) and the many shorelines formed as lake levels fluctuated over the past 14,000 years. The traditional cultural property is associated with the creation of the world and the lifeways and history of the Nüümü and Newe (Owens Valley Paiute and Western Shoshone Indigenous People). A unique cultural landscape that includes many features related to creation and to the continued maintenance and restoration of balance in the world, the district is also a physical, place-based manifestation of the United States’ genocidal policies toward the Indigenous inhabitants of the American West and the colonization of Indigenous homelands in what became the United States of America. The district’s significance includes its focus for passing on culture and history to younger generations, and for sharing ecologically relevant traditional knowledge with agencies responsible for land stewardship.

The next State Historical Resources Commission meeting is scheduled for Friday, November 7, 2024. Nominations to be heard on the November 7, 2024 agenda will be posted after August 29, 2024.