Plaza de la Guerra Reconsidered Symposium (1999) Now Available Online
Plaza de la Guerra is once again at the forefront of community conversations about Santa Barbara’s downtown revitalization. On December...
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Oct 9, 20202 min read
SBTHP’s Commitment to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
by Anne Petersen The Santa Barbara Trust for Historic Preservation (SBTHP) is committed to following best practices in our field in our...
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Sep 11, 20202 min read
The Interesting Life of 914 Santa Barbara Street
by Anne Petersen The white, wooden building at 914 Santa Barbara Street in El Presidio de Santa Barbara State Historic Park (SHP) has had...
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Aug 6, 20203 min read
Major Repairs to a Small Gem in the Presidio Neighborhood
by Anne Petersen In Fall of 2019 the Santa Barbara Trust for Historic Preservation began repair work on a 1928 commercial building at...
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Jul 30, 20202 min read
A Brief History of the Presidio Chapel Bells
by Tim Aceves 11,000 miles. Presidio Chapel bell, dedicated San Pascual Bailon, present-day. Image by Tim Aceves. That’s how many miles...
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Jul 24, 20202 min read
Meet Unita Ahdifard, SBTHP’s 2020 Public Humanities Graduate Student Intern
by Kevin McGarry In 2019, UC Santa Barbara’s Interdisciplinary Humanities Center (IHC) offered its first Public Humanities Graduate...
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Jul 17, 20202 min read
A Sneak Peek of our new Exhibit at the Pickle Room
Jimmy’s Oriental Gardens, the last Chinese family-owned and operated business in Santa Barbara’s Chinatown, was a longtime favorite for...
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Apr 5, 20203 min read
Replacing the Presidio Chapel Doors
by Michael H. Imwalle The project to lovingly restore the Santa Barbara Presidio Chapel doors is complete. The process entailed the...
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Feb 25, 20203 min read
A Sneak Peak inside the 1871 Cota-Knox House at El Presidio de Santa Bárbara State Historic Park
by Anne Petersen The Cota-Knox House, present day. Photo by Tim Aceves. In November 2019, the Santa Barbara Trust for Historic...
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Feb 21, 20202 min read
California Missions Foundation Continues to Support Preservation Efforts at the Santa Inés Mission M
by Michael H. Imwalle South side grist mill after repair. Photo by Michael H. Imwalle. In December 2018 the California Missions...
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Nov 1, 20192 min read
2019 United Way Day of Caring
by Michael H. Imwalle Koji Tanaka and volunteers from the Santa Barbara School of Squash working around the Presidio Research Center....
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Oct 25, 20193 min read
Imagining a new life for the Cota-Knox House
by Anne Petersen In Spring of 2019 the Santa Barbara Trust for Historic Preservation contacted our friend Thomas Van Stein, a talented...
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Sep 13, 20194 min read
A Q+A with our summer intern, Emma John
Emma John is a second-year PhD student in History at UC Santa Barbara interested in public history and nineteenth-century U.S. history...
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Sep 6, 20193 min read
Connecting Santa Barbara’s early 20th-century Japanese-American Community to those interned at Gila
Dr. Stacey Camp of Michigan State University (left) and Koji Lau-Ozawa (right) analyzing ceramic artifacts and field notes from the...
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Jul 25, 20191 min read
Help Us Restore the Presidio Chapel Doors
When was the last time you walked through the large wooden doors of the Chapel at El Presidio Santa Bárbara State Historic Park? Founding...
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Jun 21, 20192 min read
Cota-Knox House Receives Colonial Dames of America 2019 Award for Excellence!
by Anne Petersen (L-R) Ruth Loper, Joy Chamberlain, Kathi Hobbs Chulick, Debbie Kendrick, SBTHP Executive Director Anne Petersen, Marjory...
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Oct 12, 20182 min read
The Alhecama Theatre is Santa Barbara’s Newest City Landmark!
Santa Barbara Trust for Historic Preservation’s (SBTHP) website, here. SBTHP recently completed a multi-year restoration of the interior...
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Nov 3, 20172 min read
SBTHP Restoration Committee Tackles Building Condition Assessments
SBTHP’s Restoration Committee. Photo by Michael H. Imwalle. As part of an effort to more efficiently manage and budget for repairs and...
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Oct 27, 20171 min read
Cate School Freshman Community Service Day
Cate School volunteers haul palm fronds. Photo by Michael H. Imwalle. On October 11th 2017 twelve volunteers from Cate School class of...
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Mar 17, 20172 min read
Restoration of the 1928 Ross Dickinson Mural in the Alhecama Theatre
by Michael H. Imwalle Patty West cleaning the mural surface. Note the un-cleaned portion to her left. Photo by Michael Imwalle. Built in...
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