Plaza de la Guerra is once again at the forefront of community conversations about Santa Barbara’s downtown revitalization. On December...

The Santa Barbara Trust for Historic Preservation is pleased to offer a series of notecards by local artist Claudia Hoag McGarry based on...

by Anne Petersen The Santa Barbara Trust for Historic Preservation (SBTHP) is committed to following best practices in our field in our...

by Anne Petersen The white, wooden building at 914 Santa Barbara Street in El Presidio de Santa Barbara State Historic Park (SHP) has had...

by Anne Petersen In Fall of 2019 the Santa Barbara Trust for Historic Preservation began repair work on a 1928 commercial building at...

by Tim Aceves 11,000 miles. Presidio Chapel bell, dedicated San Pascual Bailon, present-day. Image by Tim Aceves. That’s how many miles...

by Kevin McGarry In 2019, UC Santa Barbara’s Interdisciplinary Humanities Center (IHC) offered its first Public Humanities Graduate...

Jimmy’s Oriental Gardens, the last Chinese family-owned and operated business in Santa Barbara’s Chinatown, was a longtime favorite for...

Just recently, The Santa Barbara Trust for Historic Preservation was awarded a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities...

by Michael H. Imwalle The project to lovingly restore the Santa Barbara Presidio Chapel doors is complete. The process entailed the...

by Anne Petersen The Cota-Knox House, present day. Photo by Tim Aceves. In November 2019, the Santa Barbara Trust for Historic...

By Anthony Grumbine and Nicole Hernandez On June 7, 2019 the Santa Barbara Trust for Historic Preservation, Harrison Design, the City of...

by Michael H. Imwalle Koji Tanaka and volunteers from the Santa Barbara School of Squash working around the Presidio Research Center....

by Anne Petersen In Spring of 2019 the Santa Barbara Trust for Historic Preservation contacted our friend Thomas Van Stein, a talented...

The History and Relevancy Project is a collaborative effort by California State Parks, UC Santa Barbara and the Santa Barbara Trust for...

Santa Barbara’s “Street in Spain” located in the El Paseo. Photo by Dennis P. Doordan. On June 7, 2019 the Santa Barbara Trust for...

Emma John is a second-year PhD student in History at UC Santa Barbara interested in public history and nineteenth-century U.S. history...

Dr. Stacey Camp of Michigan State University (left) and Koji Lau-Ozawa (right) analyzing ceramic artifacts and field notes from the...

Julia Morgan in 1898 in her Paris apartment. Photo from Julia Morgan Papers, Special Collections and Archives, California Polytechnic...

When was the last time you walked through the large wooden doors of the Chapel at El Presidio Santa Bárbara State Historic Park? Founding...