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    Plaza de la Guerra Reconsidered Symposium (1999) Now Available Online
    • Feb 3, 2021
    • 2 min

    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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    SBTHP’s Commitment to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
    • Oct 9, 2020
    • 2 min

    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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    The Interesting Life of 914 Santa Barbara Street
    • Sep 11, 2020
    • 2 min

    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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    Major Repairs to a Small Gem in the Presidio Neighborhood
    • Aug 6, 2020
    • 3 min

    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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    A Brief History of the Presidio Chapel Bells
    • Jul 30, 2020
    • 2 min

    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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    Meet Unita Ahdifard, SBTHP’s 2020 Public Humanities Graduate Student Intern
    • Jul 24, 2020
    • 2 min

    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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    A Sneak Peek of our new Exhibit at the Pickle Room
    • Jul 17, 2020
    • 2 min

    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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    Replacing the Presidio Chapel Doors
    • Apr 6, 2020
    • 3 min

    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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    A Sneak Peak inside the 1871 Cota-Knox House at El Presidio de Santa Bárbara State Historic Park
    • Feb 25, 2020
    • 3 min

    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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    California Missions Foundation Continues to Support Preservation Efforts at the Santa Inés Mission M
    • Feb 21, 2020
    • 2 min

    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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    2019 United Way Day of Caring
    • Nov 1, 2019
    • 2 min

    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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    Imagining a new life for the Cota-Knox House
    • Oct 25, 2019
    • 3 min

    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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    A Q+A with our summer intern, Emma John
    • Sep 13, 2019
    • 4 min

    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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    Connecting Santa Barbara’s early 20th-century Japanese-American Community to those interned at Gila
    • Sep 6, 2019
    • 3 min

    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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    Help Us Restore the Presidio Chapel Doors
    • Jul 25, 2019
    • 1 min

    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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    Cota-Knox House Receives Colonial Dames of America 2019 Award for Excellence!
    • Jun 21, 2019
    • 2 min

    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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    The Alhecama Theatre is Santa Barbara’s Newest City Landmark!
    • Oct 12, 2018
    • 2 min

    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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    SBTHP Restoration Committee Tackles Building Condition Assessments
    • Nov 3, 2017
    • 2 min

    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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    Cate School Freshman Community Service Day
    • Oct 27, 2017
    • 1 min

    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...