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President's Message
Trying to predict the future is almost always a fool's errand, but it's safe to say that 2020 will go down in history as a pivotal year. Maybe not to the degree of 1929, when the Great Depression began, but transformational nonetheless. Without a doubt, the repercussions from the COVID-19 pandemic...Read more
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San Diego Cultural Heritage Tours
Old Town, Part II: Heritage Park
In January we launched San Diego Cultural Heritage Tours with Old Town San Diego, the first tour of the series. This tour showcases the multicultural history of our oldest neighborhood. ...Read more
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Bungalow Courts:
The Original Affordable, Transit-Oriented Housing
The University Heights Historical Society has been working with City of San Diego Historic Preservation Planning staff and SOHO since 2015 to identify and assess bungalow courts throughout...Read more
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Historic Trees of Kensington
Need Your Voice
Picture to yourself trees full of fertility lining both sides of all streets and the streets scientifically engineered to form perfect water sheds and surfaced with ten-inch disintegrated granite, with cement aqueducts at all crossings,...Read more
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Tijuana's Modernism
Developing a historic context for Tijuana's Modernist architecture is not easy. Unable to keep pace with urban planning, the city's rapid and erratic growth has...Read more
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Stein Farm Relocates Victorian Cottage
The newest addition to the historic Stein Family Farm, a three-acre living history farm in the heart of National City, is an 1880s Queen Anne Victorian cottage that was once a...Read more
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Del Mar's Historic Dunham House to be Relocated
The only Victorian era cottage to remain within the historic heart of Del Mar, this c.1885 home was built by Jacob Shell Taylor, the founder of...Read more
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Demolition Update:
Chase Bank, Pacific Beach
SOHO learned about the intended demolition of the Millard Sheets-designed Home Savings and Loan building, now Chase Bank, early this summer. The bank wants to...Read more
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2020 Most Endangered List of Historic Resources
In bringing attention to threatened buildings, sites, and places, SOHO's Most Endangered List has raised awareness countywide and resulted in many success stories. ...Read more
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Alarming Changes
for NEPA
The National Environmental Protection Act, the country's leading environmental protection law, requires federal agencies to consider project impacts on the natural...Read more
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State Legislature Watch List & Moving Forward Act
Although California Senate Bill 50 was finally killed earlier in 2020, the State Legislature has been hard at work devising similar detrimental housing bills and methods...Read more
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Great American Outdoors Act - Law of this Great Land!
As expected, and with your valuable support, the Great American Outdoors Act was signed into law August 4, 2020 with hefty bipartisan support (and House sponsorship...Read more
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San Diego City & County Designations
In July, the City of San Diego's Historical Resources Board (HRB) meeting began with a surprise announcement: The City recently received a $40,000 grant from the California Historic Preservation Office to develop a bungalow court and garden apartment historic context statement! As reported ...Read more
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Whaley House Goes Virtual
This Halloween
Known as "America's Most Haunted," the Whaley House, SOHO's flagship historic house museum, draws huge crowds during the month of October, especially on Halloween night. This year, however, is different, so SOHO has some virtual tricks and treats in store for this very unique 2020 Halloween!...Read more
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Día de los Muertos with SOHO
In 2010, SOHO founded the first Old Town San Diego community-wide Día de los Muertos celebration. The holiday, known also as Day of the Dead, is observed annually on November 1 and 2, and celebrates the unity of...Read more
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The Renowned Tanner Troupe
San Diego's first commercial theater arrived in late 1868 when the Tanner Troupe established their enterprise on the second story of Thomas Whaley's residence in Old Town, ...Read more
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Tales of a
Medicine Man
H.L. Warren Hildreth (1875-1934) was the Indian Service Doctor from 1918 to 1934 in San Diego's backcountry. The Medicine Man, written by his wife Ada Waite Hildreth...Read more
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Honoring
David R. Roberts
Lois deKock, one of our long-time Marston House docents, has donated an important collection of documents about the development of Balboa Park from the...Read more
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SOHO Museums Zoom Backgrounds!
As many of us continue to shelter at home, connecting with friends and family, or attending the work meetings a job requires, Zoom has become an important way...Read more
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Financial support is provided in part by the City of San Diego Commission for Arts and Culture. |
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