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2019 Preservation Heroes to be Honored!
May/June 2019
 Please join us on Thursday, May 30 from 4 to 6pm for SOHO's 37th annual People In Preservation Awards as SOHO celebrates its 50th Anniversary with this year's 11 accolades to people, firms, and institutions. They join more than 400 preservation heroes who have won the prestigious honor since its start.
John D. Henderson, FAIA, will receive SOHO's highest honor, the Lifetime Achievement Award, which is rarely presented. It is especially fitting that this accomplished octogenarian should be so honored during SOHO's 50th anniversary year because he helped launch the group and pitched in where needed to keep it going. He also restored or rehabilitated many of San Diego's most iconic landmarks over a four-decade career. Among them are the Mission San Diego de Alcala; Santa Fe Depot; Spreckels Theatre; Balboa Park's El Prado, Plaza de Panama and Plaza de Balboa; La Jolla Woman's Club; Coronado Public Library; Leucadia Santa Fe Depot; and Old Scripps Laboratory Building, Scripps Institution of Oceanography.
Honorees also include four couples who meticulously restored their historic homes in San Diego and Del Mar, a Girl Scout troop that brought early 20th-century neighborhood pillars back to life in Lemon Grove, and Jonathan Segal, architect and developer, who restored a 1926 bungalow court as studio apartments in Little Italy, foregoing a high-density project where it would have been permitted.
The University of California at San Diego completed a campus-wide survey, documenting the evolution of the campus plan and architecture, while also highlighting historic resources. Klonie Kunzel and the La Playa Trail Association are being honored with a Keeper of the Flame Award for replacing historic trail markers, producing a history book on Point Loma, and organizing a public lecture series. Poway resident Jessica Johnson will receive the Town Crier Award for her for raising historic preservation awareness with her Hidden San Diego book, website, and popular social media pages, which aim to interest young and active generations in exploring local historic sites and preserving them.
We'll bring you descriptions and photos of all the PIP winners in the July-August issue of Our Heritage eNews, or find them in June after the awards at www.SOHOsandiego.org.
The awards are held each year at the historic Marston House formal garden, one of California's finest examples of the Arts and Crafts movement. The two-story mansion on sweeping grounds adjacent to Balboa Park was built in 1905 for George W. Marston and his wife, Anna Gunn Marston, and designed by the renowned architects William Sterling Hebbard and Irving J. Gill. George Marston is noted for many achievements but most prominently as a civic leader whose interest and work in historic preservation, conservation, and parks is well known.
Celebrate and pay tribute to those who embody the best in preservation in San Diego County. Tickets include a reception with hors d'oeuvres, and a wine and beer open bar.
The PIP Awards festivities typically sell out, and no tickets will be sold at the door. Purchase tickets and more information HERE or call (619) 297-9327.
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