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    • March 27, 2024
    • 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
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    Photo courtesy of Anne Lindsay

    National Historic Landmark (NHL) is the highest level of federal designation in the United States. There are just over 2,600 of them nationally, as compared to the roughly 98,000 properties listed in the National Register (NR). 


    Have you ever wondered how the nomination process differs from that of the National Register? We’ll learn how the documentation is the same, and how it differs, on March 27th at 6pm in an online talk with Anne Lindsay. 


    Lindsay will discuss the differences in these designations, the NHL process, and key elements to consider when evaluating potential properties. 


    Sign up now to attend this online presentation. 

    About our speaker

    Anne Lindsay (Ph.D., University of California, Riverside) is a consulting historian specializing in historic preservation and National Historic Landmark designation. She is the primary author of Norman Film Manufacturing Company NHL and Pond Farm Pottery NHL. She is also the author of Redefining Interpretation at Heritage Sites: America in the Eighteenth Century, published by Routledge in 2020. Her current project is the revision of Sutter’s Fort National Historic Landmark.

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    • April 24, 2024
    • 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
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    This Zoom talk explains the indoor-outdoor design of the historic Sunset Magazine campus in Menlo Park, CA, completed in 1951 as a collaboration between ranch house polarizer Cliff May and nationally renowned landscape architect Thomas Church. Representing the ideal setting for Western -- as opposed to Eastern and Mid-Western -- living, it was California-in-a-container; you just had to add water. An early example of environmental design, it prompted the design of the Robert Mondavi Winery at Rutherford, CA (1966, also by May and Church) and pointed the way toward more elaborate corporate settings built by Apple, Google, and Facebook. 

    About our speakers

    Kathleen Brenzel is the author/editor of The Western Garden Book, among many titles, and was Sunset's Garden Editor.

    Daniel Gregory is an architectural historian/editor and author of Cliff May and the Modern Ranch House, and was Sunset's Senior Home Editor.


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    • June 15, 2024
    • 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM
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    Donnell (Dewey) Residence, Sonoma. Thomas D. Church Collection,

    UC Berkeley Environmental Design Archives

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    Visit two important and very different gardens located in southeastern Sonoma County.


    We'll begin the day at the Sonoma Botanical Garden (formerly known as Quarryhill) with a talk followed by a walk around the garden. The garden contains an exceptional collection of rare plants grown from seeds from Asia and has been expanded to include a native plant garden. (Note that the garden is located on a sloping site.)


    After enjoying a boxed lunch in the garden, we'll proceed to the iconic Donnell Garden. Completed in 1948, this landscape quickly became famous for the dynamic shape of its pool and integration into the appearance of the wider landscape. There is much more to this garden than the photogenic pool. 


    This private property is still held by the Donnell family and this is a rare opportunity to see the garden. 



    Katsura trees at the Sonoma Botanical Garden. Photo by Janet Gracyk


Past events

February 27, 2024 Governor's Historic Preservation Awards Ceremony
December 05, 2023 2023 Annual Membership Meeting
October 13, 2023 2023 Annual Conference: Ukiah, The Heart of Mendocino County
June 29, 2023 Nature, Landscapes, Farms and Gardens through Two Late 19th Century Women’s Eyes
May 20, 2023 Nurseries to Gardens, a Sonoma County Curated Tour
March 26, 2023 Sunday in Palm Springs - Smoke Tree Ranch and a Restored Eckbo, Royston, & Williams Garden
December 01, 2022 2022 Annual Meeting
October 14, 2022 CGLHS Annual Conference: Past, Present and Future of the Los Angeles River
September 21, 2022 The Northwest Gardens of Lord & Schryver
June 01, 2022 Olmsted and Yosemite: Civil War, Abolition, and the National Park Idea
May 14, 2022 The Secret Gardens of Old Monterey Walking Tour
May 11, 2022 Garden History of the Monterey Peninsula
April 30, 2022 A Walking Tour of San Francisco's Golden Gate Park
November 17, 2021 San Francisco's Golden Gate Park: A Thousand and Seventeen Acres of Stories
November 10, 2021 An Introduction to Landscape Photography
October 13, 2021 Apples & Ciders & Trees (oh, my!)
June 16, 2021 Japanese Gardens in California
May 19, 2021 The Glamorous Gardens of Tommy Tomson
May 12, 2021 Documenting Landscapes in Perpetuity: The Historic American Landscapes Survey (HALS)
April 21, 2021 How to Research 201: a review guide to researching people
March 24, 2021 CGLHS Lecture: The Modern Landscapes of Robert Royston
February 17, 2021 CGLHS Lecture: Shaping Landscape Architecture in the Early 20th Century: Race, Gender, and Difference
November 18, 2020 CGLHS Lecture: Landscapes Lost or Forgotten
October 21, 2020 CGLHS Lecture: The Olmsted Brothers: Innovative Ecological Designs for California
September 23, 2020 CGLHS Lecture: Landscapes for Leisure
August 19, 2020 CGLHS Lecture: Hayes Perkins, The “Magic Carpet” Man
March 28, 2020 POSTPONED: Extraordinary Life and Legacy of Botanist Mildred E. Mathias: Film, Lecture, Tour, and Lunch
March 28, 2020 POSTPONED: Preservation Behind the Scenes in Filoli's Historic Garden
March 21, 2020 While Events are Cancelled: Online Resources from CGLHS
March 09, 2020 Huntington Lecture: California and the Birth of the Modern Garden
November 17, 2019 Outstanding American Gardens Lecture
October 04, 2019 CGLHS ANNUAL CONFERENCE: LOMPOC AND MISSION LA PURISIMA
September 21, 2019 Busch Gardens, Pasadena, Part 2: Lower Gardens
August 10, 2019 Busch Gardens Tour in Pasadena
August 05, 2019 California Ranches: Lands in Transition
June 03, 2019 Richard Neutra, Landscape Architect
May 11, 2019 Glendale Historical Society Restoration Expo
November 19, 2018 Beatrix Farrand Film Screenings
November 02, 2018 CGLHS ANNUAL CONFERENCE: MARIN COUNTY
July 29, 2018 BUSCH GARDENS: ADOLPHUS BUSCH'S EARLY AMUSEMENT PARK
May 19, 2018 TWO HISTORIC GARDENS IN PASADENA
December 02, 2017 FRANCIS DEAN AND THE ART OF MODERN LANDSCAPE
November 12, 2017 THE LANDSCAPE DESIGNS OF RALPH D. CORNELL
October 27, 2017 LANDSCAPES FOR LEISURE: ANNUAL CONFERENCE
September 19, 2017 RUTH SHELLHORN: MIDCENTURY LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
July 19, 2017 KATE O. SESSIONS: A NETWORK AND LEGACY OF BOTANICAL BOUNTY
April 01, 2017 ERNEST BATCHELDER: HIS PUBLIC LEGACY, HIS PRIVATE GARDEN
September 23, 2016 CHICO, JEWEL OF THE NORTH VALLEY
November 02, 2015 SAVING OUR GARDENS…HONORING OUR PAST
October 02, 2015 CULTIVATING IDENTITY: BALBOA PARK AS CULTURAL LANDSCAPE
June 05, 2015 ARCHITECTURAL AND HORTICULTURAL WALKING TOUR OF THE VILLAGE OF MALAGA COVE IN PALOS VERDES ESTATES
November 07, 2014 WHAT’S OUT THERE WEEKEND LOS ANGELES: THE PUBLIC LANDSCAPES OF RALPH D. CORNELL
October 24, 2014 THE LANDSCAPE LEGACY OF LOCKWOOD DE FOREST
September 28, 2013 BECOMING PUBLIC: DESIGN, HISTORY, PLANTS AND PRESERVATION IN EAST BAY GARDENS
May 31, 2013 WHEN THEY WERE WILD
April 12, 2013 A FRESNO FROLIC
October 13, 2012 PIECING TOGETHER PASADENA’S GARDEN HISTORY: A Unique Project in an American City
September 08, 2012 PLANTS, PASSION, AND PROPAGATION: A HORTICULTURAL TOUR OF SONOMA COUNTY
September 09, 2011 RANCHOS TO CASTLES: A TOUR OF SAN LUIS OBISPO COUNTY
November 13, 2010 KEEPING UP WITH THE JONESES: BEATRIX FARRAND’S SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA GARDENS
October 15, 2010 SANTA CRUZ: LAND OF 1001 WONDERS
October 02, 2010 NATURE OF THE PLACE
July 11, 2010 NEVER MET A VIEW I DIDN’T LIKE
May 22, 2010 ON THE RAZOR’S EDGE
April 17, 2010 LANDSCAPE AS SANCTUARY
October 23, 2009 LANDSCAPES FOR LIVING: THE POST WAR YEARS IN NORTHERN CALIFORNIA
September 26, 2008 SPIRIT OF LANDSCAPE: CALIFORNIA’S LOWER OWENS RIVER VALLEY
September 27, 2007 CALIFORNIA JAPANESE STYLE GARDENS: TRADITION AND PRACTICE
October 20, 2006 CALIFORNIA’S SARATOGA: SPRINGS, ORCHARDS & GARDENS
June 11, 2005 BEYOND VINEYARDS: LANDSCAPES OF THE NAPA VALLEY
November 04, 2004 THE EMPIRE THAT CITRUS BUILT: LANDSCAPE HISTORY OF OLD SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY
July 25, 2003 EARTHLY PARADISE: GARDEN HISTORY OF THE SAN FRANCISCO PENINSULA
October 11, 2002 CULTIVATING CAPISTRANO: HISTORIC VALLEY GARDENS AND LANDSCAPES
September 22, 2002 GARDEN HISTORY OF SONOMA COUNTY
October 07, 2000 GARDEN HISTORY OF THE MONTEREY PENINSULA
August 20, 1999 ARTISTIC LEGACIES: UNLOCKING THE TREASURES BEHIND THE GARDEN GATES
February 25, 1999 REGIONAL MEETING: HISTORY OF SANTA BARBARA GARDENS
May 02, 1998 SACRAMENTO AREA EMPHASIS
October 11, 1997 PASADENA AREA EMPHASIS
April 12, 1997 BAY AREA EMPHASIS
November 09, 1996 BOTANIC HERITAGE GEMS OF SAN DIEGO
February 16, 1996 SECOND ORGANIZATIONAL MEETING
September 23, 1995 FIRST ORGANIZATIONAL MEETING

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