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, 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- Apr 5, 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- Oct 12, 2018
- 2 min