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June 11 and 12, 2010 The 2010 Spring NCCSAH Tour will occur on June 11 and June 12, 2010, and will focus on Federal Building Architecture Past and Present in San Francisco. The three buildings on the two tours include:
These three buildings represent three distinct periods of architecture covering 140 years of the City's history. Friday, June 11, 2010 (1:30pm to 4:30pm) The Friday Tour will include the two Federal buildings at the corner of 7th and Mission Streets: the New San Francisco Federal Building and the James R. Browning U.S. Court of Appeals. The Italian Renaissance Style Court of Appeals building is recognized as one of the most beautiful Federal Court buildings in the United States. Background information and photos of the James R. Browning U.S. Court of Appeals can be found on their website (click link). The innovative Southern California firm Morphosis (Thom Mayne, Design Director) designed the new San Francisco Federal Building between 2003 and 2007. The building has received numerous design awards and is considerd a model of sustainable design. More information can be found at their website (click link). The brillant and witty Warren Sitterley will lead the tour on June 11, 2010. During his 35-years with the General Services Administration (GSA), Mr. Sitterley has been the Chief Engineer and Manager of the San Francisco Customs House (555 Clay St) and the U.S. Court of Appeals and the San Francisco Federal Building (beginning when it opened in 2007). He was also the last Federal Manager of the Old Mint before the building was transferred to the City of San Francisco. Saturday, June 12, 2010 (10:00am to 1:30pm) The Saturday Tour will include the National Historic Landmark, the U.S. Mint at 5th and Mission Streets. Designed by Alfred Mullett and constructed between 1866 and 1870, the Old Mint is recognized as a major monument of the Greek Revival style in the U.S. The tour will focus on the building's history and design in addition to the ambitious reuse plan for a San Francisco History Museum and Visitor Center (Check out their website at www.themintproject.org) Architectural Resources Group Senior Architectural Historian Katherine Petrin (who wrote the Old Mint Historic Structures Report), ARG Designer Jason Wright, and Deborah Frieden, Project Director of the Mint Project, will lead the tour. Subsquent to the tour, we will have lunch (12 Noon to 1:30pm) at Chez Papa Resto at 4 Mint Plaza (www.chezpapasf.com/resto). The three course lunch is included in the registration fee. The San Francisco Chronicle Food Critics recently voted Chez Papa Resto as one of 100 Best Restaurants in the Bay Area. It was also voted one of the top 10 new restaurants in 2008. Click here for a preview of the lunch menu. Registration Friday, June 11, 2010 [NCCSAH Members - $20; Non-Members - $30] Saturday, June 12, 2010 [NCCSAH Members - $30; Non-Members - $40] Both Days (June 11 and June 12) [NCCSAH - $45; Non-Members - $65] Please send your check made out to NCCSAH with your contact information, phone number(s), and email address to:
Payment must be received by June 1, 2010. For more information, please contact Ward Hill at whill@pacbell.net. Space for both tours is limited. You are not registered for the tour until NCCSAH received your check.
March 28, 2010 Pasadena Heritage hosted a tour of Buff & Hensman: Art of Modernism on Sunday, March 28 from 9am to 4pm. For information on the tour or Buff & Hensman, check their website at: http://www.pasadenaheritage.org
January 2010 To all members, NCCSAH is seeking your membership renewal forms and dues. You can download the form by clicking this link. Membership renewals can be sent to: Membership Coordinator, Lissa McKee, 307 Starling Road, Mill Valley, CA 94941. Thank you!
October 3-4, 2009 The Fall 2009 NCCSAH tour of the rich historic and architectural resources of Humboldt County and the town of Eureka was a huge success. NCCSAH wants to express our gratitude to:
May 9, 2009
The NCCSAH Spring 2009 Event was a tour of the Town of Locke in the Sacramento Delta. The tour started at Hartland Nursery, in Walnut Grove and featured a boat tour of the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta. Afterwards, the group had a docent led tour of the town of historic Locke ending at the recently restored Locke Boarding House. NCCSAH wants to express our gratitude to Jeff Hart for the tour of the Delta, the Locke Foundation for the tour of historic Locke, and Katherine Petrin & Kitty Vieth from ARG for the tour of the Locke Boarding House.
Click here for more information about Jeff Hart. Click here for more information about Hartland Nursery. Click here for more information about Locke, California.
April 1-5, 2009 The Society of Architectural Historians (SAH) is hosting their annual meeting/conference in Pasadena from April 1st to April 5th, 2009. More information on the annual meeting may be obtained at their website, http://www.sah.org.
November 16, 2008 (Special Event) A NCCSAH Special Event occurred on November 16, 2008, and consisted of a tour and lunch at Bruce Aidells' Greene & Greene-inspired house, near Healdsburg. NCCSAH would like to express our gratitude to Bruce Aidells and Nancy Oakes for hosting the event.
More information may be obtained at: http://www.jeannieoconnor.com/healdsburg, or in a recent San Francisco Chronicle article entitled "The House That Sausage Built" can be accessed at: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2008/09/07/CM9611R4K6.DTL
 September 26-28, 2008
From September 26 to September 28, 2008, the California Garden and Landscape History Society will be hosting their annual conference, Spirit of Landscape: California's Lower Owens River Valley, in Lone Pine, California. For more information, please check out their website at http://www.cglhs.org September 6-7, 2008 The NCCSAH Fall 2008 Event consisted of 'Santa Cruz Weekend,' and included a tour of Pasatiempo and a tour of University of California Santa Cruz. We want to express our gratitude to Virginia Jansen and Frank Zwart for organizing and presenting the tour. May 7-10, 2008 NCCSAH co-sponsored the Vernacular Architecture Forum conference in Fresno. The tours included historic small towns of the Central Valley like Hanford and the historic buildings of Yosemite. For conference info, go to: http://www.vernaculararchitectureforum.org. Our gratitude goes out to Karana Hattersley-Drayton for organizing this event.
Friday, April 4 and Saturday, April 5, 2008
The NCCSAH Spring 2008 Event consisted of: 'Greene and Greene Galore + Green Gables.' We want to express our gratitude to Ted Bosley for arranging the tour and giving the public lecture, and to the Fleischaker family for allowing us to tour the Green Gables estate.
November 10, 2007 On November 10, 2007, Stanford Professor Emeritus Paul Turner led a tour for NCCSAH members of the Bazett House in Hillsborough designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in 1939. We want to express our gratitude to Professor Paul Turner for organizing this event. For an extensive history of the house, please go to: http://www.eichlernetwork.com/ENStry11.html
September 29, 2007 The NCCSAH 2007 Fall Event was entitled: Midcentury Suburban Architecture: A Tour of Daly City's Westlake . The tour was scheduled for September 29, 2007 from 10:00am to 3:30pm. For information, click here for the Newsletter. Thanks to all that attended.
 The Northern California Chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians was organized in 1996. The Chapter first met to hear speakers and tour the area in and around the campus of the University of California at Berkeley. Since that time Chapter members have gathered at meetings in Chico, Monterey, Oakland, Grass Valley, Sacramento, the Valley of the Moon in Sonoma County, Sausalito, Tiburon, Stockton, Alameda, and Woodland.
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