What is a Historic District?

Historic Districts Under Development

• Mission Hills - Arguello / Arden Way / St. James / Ingleside / Witherby
• South Park

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Established Historic Districts throughout the County

City of San Diego Designation

• Asian Pacific Historic Thematic District ~ full map (large image)
• Auxiliary Naval Air Station Brown Field ~ full map (large image)
• Bishop's School
• Burlingame
• Gaslamp ~ full map (large image)
• Grant Hill ~ full map (large image)
• Greater Golden Hill ~ full map (large image)
• Islenair ~ full map (large image)
• Little Italy ~ full map (large image)
• Mission Hills - Fort Stockton Line
• Mission Hills Historic District
• Mission Hills Historic District Guidelines (57-page pdf)
• Ocean Beach ~ full map (large image)
• Pueblo Ribera ~ full map (large image)
• Sherman Heights ~ full map (large image)
• Shirley Ann Place
• Talmadge ~ full map (large image)
• Theosophical Institute, Point Loma ~ full map (large image)

Citywide Districts Map
Historical Resources Board Information Line: (619) 235-5224

County of San Diego Designation

• Camp Lockett
• Mataguay
• Old Escondido Historic District

State of California Designation

• Edgemoor Farm and Home for the Aged and Indigent Historic District
• Old Town San Diego State Historic Park

National Designation

• Balboa Park ~ full map (large image)
• Cabrillo National Monument
• Camp Howard
• Edgemoor
• El Prado Complex
• Fages-De Anza Trail-Southern Emigrant Road
• Gregory Mountain (Chokia)
• Harris, CW Site Archeological District
• Heilman Villas
• Kuchamaa
• Lower Borrego Valley Archeological District
• Los Peñasquitos Historic and Archeological District
• Marine Corps Recruit Depot
• Naval Air Station, San Diego
• Naval Training Station ~ full map (large image)
• Old Town San Diego ~ full map (large image)
• Rancho de los Kiotes
• Rockwell Field
• Rosicrucian Fellowship Temple
• San Diego Civic Center
• San Diego State College
• Table Mountain District

[Maps courtesy of City of San Diego Planning Department.]

National Parks Service Websites

• National Register of Historic Places Technical Bulletins
• Secretary of the Interior's Standards for Treatment of Historic Properties

Historic Designation and Residential Property Values 10-page pdf
Estimating the Value of the Historical Designation Externality 8-page pdf
San Diego Modernism Historic Context Statement (154-page pdf, 7.8mb)
Time is Not on Our Side By Allen Hazard