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PRESERVATION PARTNERS & COMMUNITY
March/April 2019
SOHO promotes and supports San Diego's historic community. Click the items below to learn about historic preservation efforts, programs, and events throughout San Diego County.
Three SOHO members we know of are giving four lectures in March: Milford Wayne Donaldson (see March 23), Ron May (March 16) and Diane Kane (March 16 and 20).
March 1-30 · For Women's History Month - San Diego Friends of Architecture exhibit called "Breaking Barriers" on six San Diego women pioneers in architecture and landscape architecture and design: Jane A. Minshall, Lilian Rice, Kate Sessions, Louise Mary Severin, Hazel Wood Waterman, and Harriett Wimmer.
March 16 · Historic Designation Workshop
La Jolla Historical Society
Presented by City of San Diego staff to the Historical Resources Board
Space is limited; reserve now.
March 16 · Mission Hills Heritage Spring Lectures
March 20 · The Bungalow: Simple Life to High Style
Lecture by Diane Kane
La Jolla Historical Society
March 22-24 · Scholars' Symposium: The San Diego Mission de Alcalá (marking the 250th anniversary of its founding) and Mission Life at the Mission Basilica San Diego de Alcalá.
Subjects range from conservation of Mission art and this Mission's architectural history to "Native Americans and the Spanish Colonial Impact." Wayne Donaldson is speaking March 23 on "Seismic Strengthening of California's Historic Sites: Mission San Diego de Alcalá."
March 24 · Adobe Home Tour: From Mission to Modern
Pauma Valley
March 24 · Deadline to enter La Jolla Landmark Photo Fest
Info: landmarkphotofest@gmail.com
March 29 & 30 · Congress of History of San Diego and Imperial Counties
54th Annual Conference, "Defining Moments, 250 Years."
Extraordinary events that shaped the history of the San Diego region (1769-2019).
Co-sponsor: The Portuguese Historical Center
April 7-May 18 · La Jolla Landmark Photo Fest
La Jolla Riford Library Community Room
April 7 reception and winners announced.
Free Tours of the Barona Indian Reservation Chapel by Gill
Ongoing
 The Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary Chapel and its altar (1939), designed by Irving Gill on the Barona Indian Reservation. Photos by A. Hayes |
Free tours of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary Chapel, designed in 1939 by Irving Gill, San Diego's renowned early modernist architect, are held on the first Friday of each month at Barona Indian Reservation in Lakeside. Archivist and historian Jennifer Stone leads the tours, which complement the Barona Cultural Center and Museum's ongoing Irving Gill exhibit, which opened in 2018.
Stone begins the tour inside the chapel with an overview of Barona band history and how their reservation was established. The adjacent cemetery and grotto are included on the tour.
A mile away is the Barona Cultural Center and Museum at 1095 Barona Road. It is San Diego County's first museum on an Indian reservation dedicated to the perpetuation and presentation of local Kumeyaay-Diegueño Native culture.
The museum's Gill exhibit highlights the chapel along with the cottages the architect designed and helped residents build when he lived on the reservation in 1932. Throughout his career, Gill had wealthy clients, but he was also dedicated to experimental, low cost construction materials and techniques.
To visit these truly fascinating sites in a rural Native American community, make your tour reservation by contacting Jennifer Stone at (619) 443-7003 ext. 219 or jstone@barona-nsn.gov.
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