Society of Architectural Historians
Northern California Chapter
 
News
 
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:

  • John Benbow
  • Dave Stockton from California State Parks.
  • Frank Bacik, Town of Scotia Company
  • Ray Hillman, Historian
  • Ron Kuhnel and Paul McNally, Ingomar Club
  • Muriel Densmore, Eureka Heritage Society
  • Erik Hollenbeck, Blue Ox Mill
  • The Crew of the Madaket

 

 

More information on tour sites visited can be found at: 
 
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.
 
 
  
About NCCSAH
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.