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PRESERVATION PARTNERS & COMMUNITY
January/February 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.
 The Life and Times of Lilian J. Rice, Master Architect (Schiffer, $35). Available at the Marston House Museum Shop. |
Overlooked No More
The New York Times recently began publishing obituaries of prominent women from history who were not given this tribute when they died. Lilian Rice, architect of Rancho Santa Fe's village center and many homes, was at last given her due in the series "Overlooked No More" in November 2018. The definitive book on Rice is by SOHO member Diane Y. Welch, who is quoted in the obit. Read her obituary HERE. |
 The San Diego History Center in Balboa Park needs volunteers to help monitor a block of the AIDS Memorial Quilt that is included in the "LGBTQ+ San Diego" exhibition (through January 2020). The individual panels that form this 12-foot-square block remember San Diegans Philip Dimitri Galas, Jess Jessop, Monte Kobey, David Mandell Jr., Tim Pour, Gary Rees, Brad Truax, and Diversionary Theatre. As part of the arrangement with The NAMES Project Foundation to display the quilt, the museum must have a person present when open to the public. Duties include monitoring the AIDS Memorial Quilt area and engaging with visitors. "Taking even one shift per month is a big help," says SOHO member Chuck Kaminski.
Sign up for slots in January and February.
To volunteer after that and for more info, contact Alison Hendrickson
at ahendrickson@sandiegohistory.org or (619) 232-6203 x163.
Photo courtesy Lambda Archives of San Diego
 The American Academy in Rome brings its discussion series on cultural patrimony to the San Diego Central Library on January 3. Speakers include leading members of the preservation, archaeology, museum, and academic communities. RSVP required.
 Presidio Heritage Trust Dinner Lecture Series
January 9, 6:30pm
Jesús Benayas, president of the House of Spain in Balboa Park
Accompanied by visual presentation, Jesús will talk about how California joined the larger world in the mid-18th Century. He has presented programs at the San Diego History Center, Save Our Heritage Organisation (SOHO), the Lemon Grove Historical Society, House of Italy, Historical Resource Board, and many more.
 The cubist G. W. Simmons House (1909) in Bankers Hill, designed by the pioneering modernist Irving Gill. Photo by Sandé Lollis |
 Allen A. Hazard, who will speak about Irving Gill at February's National Arts and Crafts Conference, shown here at Frank Lloyd Wright's Millard House in Pasadena. Photo by Janet O'Dea |
 The Grove Park Inn, designed by Fred L. Seely, who was not a trained architect, and built of local uncut granite boulders. Courtesy the National Arts and Crafts Conference |
 A Great Hall fireplace at the Grove Park Inn and Roycroft rocking chairs. Courtesy the National Arts and Crafts Conference |
 Visitors to an Arts and Crafts show and sale at a past conference. Courtesy the National Arts and Crafts Conference |
Allen Hazard to Give Lecture on Irving Gill at Prestigious Arts and Crafts Conference
Tuesday, February 19, 2019
SOHO member Allen A. Hazard will present a talk called "Irving Gill: The Greatest Architect You Have Never Heard Of", at the 32nd National Arts and Crafts Conference on February 19 at the Grove Park Inn in Asheville, NC.
A former SOHO board member, author, and architectural historian, Allen will bring wider recognition to Gill, San Diego's early modernist master, at the nation's largest and most prestigious conference on the Arts and Crafts movement. He is thought to be the first speaker from San Diego to lecture at the event, and is one of only six main speakers.
Gill may be a household name in San Diego and respected by many architects, such as the late Robert Venturi, but he is relatively unknown to the general public. About 2,000 people from across the country are expected at the three-day conference, where Allen will spread the word about Gill and the Marston House (1905), which Hebbard & Gill designed and SOHO operates as a museum.
"While I am not a Gill expert per se, I know people who are, such as SOHO's Erik Hanson. Erik is a great resource for all Gill questions," Allen said. "My wife Janet O'Dea and I recently visited the University of California, Santa Barbara architecture archives, where Gill's records and historic photographs are held, in preparation for my talk. Bruce and Alana Coons graciously shared their private collection of glass negatives of Gill's architecture, made during his lifetime, for my talk. And SOHO's Sandé Lollis loaned her beautiful Marston House color photographs."
The annual gathering at the rustic, 1913 Arts and Crafts inn features seminars, skilled artisans leading workshops, small group discussions, walking tours, antique shows, and a nightly film, including the 2017 documentary "The Gamble House."
The five other speakers include antiques jewelry expert Rosalie Berberian ("If Jewels Could Talk: Stories To Share with Friends"), Stewart Crick ("Gustav Stickley: The Branded Years, 1912-1916"), glass mosaics expert Ted Ellison ("From Hand to Hearth: Mosaic Fireplaces of the Arts and Crafts Era"), long-time collector Bill Porter ("Mary Chase Stratton and Pewabic Pottery"), and James Spates ("From Ruskin to Roycroft: How John Ruskin Created the Arts and Crafts Movement").
With Janet, Allen has organized SOHO walking tours and assisted on home tours. They are founding members of Mission Hills Heritage and co-authors of Images of America, Mission Hills (Arcadia Publishing, 2015). After settling into their historically designated, 1920 Mission Hills bungalow, the couple has been instrumental in establishing neighborhood historic districts.
Read more about the conference.
Register HERE.
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Vintage San Diego
For those of you who use Facebook, PIP winner Gregory May's amazing and comprehensive San Diego vintage photo online source, his most up-to-date photo albums (alphabetical) has been released.
Visit the list HERE. |
Carol Lindemulder, Part II: "All I Ever Wanted to Be Was an Artist"
By Ann Jarmusch
January/February 2019
 Carol Lindemulder in her Borrego Springs studio in 2009. Photo by Sandé Lollis |
All paintings below by Carol Lindemulder, photos provided by the artist.  Ramona Morning |
 Stonebridge |
 Fish Creek Afternoon |
 San Pasqual Dusk |
For most people, one passion, especially a complex one like historic preservation, could devour much of one's time and energy.
Carol Lindemulder not only devoted years to leading and organizing SOHO, she also served as Vice Chairman of the City of San Diego Historical Resources Board for eight years. She leaped into a void to become president of Save the Coaster Committee, for Belmont Park's Giant Dipper Roller Coaster in Mission Beach, and was a founding board member of San Diegans for the Rowing Club Boathouse (San Diego Men's Rowing Club) in San Diego Bay. Seeking to help preservation groups with expenses, she helped found a Historic Preservation Endowment Fund at the San Diego Foundation.
But preservation isn't Carol's only passion, talent, or area of expertise. She studied harp and piano for 14 years. She worked as an interior designer and taught interior design and art. When caring for her aging mother allowed, Carol crisscrossed the world, acquiring "a broad appreciation of pattern, color, and contrast," according to her biography.
The only career Carol ever really wanted was to be a fine artist. She earned a bachelor's degree in design from the University of California, Berkeley, and was enrolled in the master of fine arts program at San Diego State University in 1969, when she co-founded SOHO with fellow artist Robert Miles Parker. It wasn't until 1995 that Carol became a full-time painter.
"Miles and I occasionally got to paint together," recalled Carol, who is an award-winning painter with collectors from Pasadena to Paris. "I was fascinated by his abilities in pen and ink. He was a most amazing artist."
With her own large oil paintings of deserts and mountains, buildings, fields, and trees on view in galleries and numerous public and private collections, Carol is being honored with a one-person exhibition in Balboa Park.
"Carol Lindemulder: Color Story" will be presented at the San Diego History Center February 9 through May 5, 2019. For information about the free opening reception, which Carol plans to attend, museum hours and admission, visit www.sandiegohistory.org. (Reception details coming soon)
"Frequently inspired by her travels and writing, Carol Lindemulder's paintings of the San Diego County landscape are distinguished by an evocative and bold use of color to convey a sense of place," wrote Kaytie Johnson, the History Center's Bruce Kamerling Curator. Johnson selected approximately 18 paintings from 1996 through 2018 for the show. Among them is Ramona Morning, a 2013 painting of a familiar streetscape that the History Center acquired for its permanent collection.
Preserving historic architecture, of course, reinforces our sense of place, but instead of focusing on building materials or stylistic details, Carol said in her paintings she's more interested in capturing evidence of human habitation, however subtle, and the ever-changing play of light and shadow. Learn more about Carol's art on her website at carollindemulder.com
"More and more, I'm in love with the landscape," Carol said of her move to Borrego Springs. "And the skies, oh my goodness, the skies can be fabulous."
Further important reading in this eNews edition: Carol Lindemulder, SOHO Co-Founder, Recalls the Beginnings 50 Years Ago
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