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October 3-4, 2009
The Fall 2009 NCCSAH tour of the rich historic and architectural resources of Humboldt County and the town of Eureka will be on the weekend of October 3 and 4, 2009. Historical background on Humboldt County can be found at clarkemuseum.org. Saturday, October 3, 2009 The tour will begin with lunch at 1:00 PM the Benbow Inn (benbowinn.com), one of the great resort hotels of California, designed in 1925 by San Francisco architect Albert Farr. The Benbow Inn is an approximately four hour drive north of San Francisco. Following lunch, the tour will continue with a nature walk of the Founder's Grove with a Humboldt Redwoods State Park park ranger (humboldtredwoods.org). We will learn about redwood forest ecology and the unique qualities of redwood as a building material. The Humboldt Redwoods State Park has many of the tallest trees in the world and the world's largest ancient redwood forest (the Rockefeller Grove). The Saturday tour will conclude with a tour of the Town of Scotia (townofscotia.com), one of the oldest company towns in the United States in continuous operation. The Pacific Lumber Company founded Scotia in the 1880s to provide housing for loggers. Scotia was recently privatized and is now governed by the Town of Scotia Company, LLC. Frank Bacik, Vice-President of the Town of Scotia Company, will lead our tour. Mr. Bacik has worked and lived in Scotia for 22 years and he has been the General Counsel for Pacific Lumber. The tour will focus on the history of Scotia and current historic preservation planning issues. Scotia is a 30 minute drive south of Eureka. A block of rooms at the 1888 Eagle House Victorian Inn (eaglehouseinn.com), 139 2nd Street in Old Town Eureka has been reserved for tour attendees. Additional lodging options can be found at eurekachamber.com. Sunday October 4, 2009 The tour will continue Sunday morning (9:30 AM) with a tour of Humboldt Bay on the Madaket, a 1910 ferry boat which is the last survivor of the seven original ferries that transported mill workers and families around Humboldt Bay(humboldtbaymaritimemuseum.com/madaketcruises.html). The boat tour will include a narrative by the boat captain about local maritime, industrial and natural history. Following the boat tour, local historian Ray Hillman will lead a tour of Old Town Eureka. The tour will end at the mansion of lumber baron William Carson (ingomar.org) where we will have lunch in the family dining room. After lunch we will tour the mansion. The Carson Mansion is probably the most famous Victorian house in the United States (certainly the most photographed) and it is an amazing example of 19th century millwork. It is owned by the private Ingomar Club and is rarely open to the public. After lunch and the Carson Mansion tour, the tour will conclude with the annual Eureka Heritage Society house tour (1-4 PM). Six or seven private Eureka homes will be included in the house tour. The drive from Eureka to San Francisco is approximately 5 hours. Registration The cost for the two day tour is $ 100 NCCSAH members, $ 120 non-members (includes Benbow Inn lunch Saturday and two tours; Sunday boat tour, Old Town tour, Carson Mansion lunch/tour and Eureka Heritage Society house tour. Lodging is not included). Please send check made out to NCCSAH to: Richard Sucre, Page & Turnbull, NCCSAH Eureka Tour, 724 Pine Street, San Francisco, CA 94108 with contact information (phone number(s) and email address). Payment must be received by September 1, 2009. No refunds after September 15, 2009. For more information please contact Ward Hill at whill@pacbell.net. 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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