Actions Taken

SHRC Registration Actions Taken in 2025

The nominations below were reviewed by the State Historical Resources Commission during the year 2025. Scroll down to view subsequent actions by quarter. New actions are added to the end of this page after each quarterly State Historical Resources Commission meeting. Agendas from past meetings are downloadable in PDF format below on the right sidebar.

February 7, 2025 SHRC Meeting

 Properties nominated to the National Register of Historic Places

  

 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.

 

 

 

 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.

  

 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. 

 

Silvergate Ferry is a ferryboat built in 1940 by the San Diego Marine Construction Company for the Star & Crescent Boat Company, which provided ferry service between San Diego and Naval Air Station North Island until 1945, then as a recreational excursion craft.  

 

 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.

 

 

Properties nominated to the California Register of Historical Resources

  

 Armenian Genocide Martyrs Monument is a tower over 60 feet high with elevated base, located in Montebello, dedicated to the memory of the victims of the 1915 Armenian Genocide, completed in 1968. The monument was designed by H. Hrant Agbabian.

May 9, 2025 SHRC Meeting

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 Trujillo 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.

 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.

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