What is a Historic District?
Why Historic Districts Matter
City of San Diego Contexts and Surveys

Benefits of Historic Districts

• Historic Designation and Residential Property Values 10-page pdf
• Estimating the Value of the Historical Designation Externality 8-page pdf

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)
• Burlingame ~ full map (large image)
• Chinese/Asian Thematic Historic District ~ full map (large image)
• El Pueblo Ribera ~ full map (large image)
• Fort Stockton Line - Mission Hills ~ HRB agenda (13-page pdf)
• Gaslamp Quarter Historic District No. 1 ~ 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)
• Melhorn and Son ~ full map (large image)
• Mission Hills - Proposed District Guidelines (57-page pdf)
• Naval Training Station Historical District
• North Park Dryden Historic District
• Ocean Beach Cottage Emerging District ~ full map (large image)
• Old Town San Diego Historic State Park
• Park Boulevard Residential Historic District
• Sherman Heights ~ ~ full map (large image)
• Shirley Ann Place ~ full map (large image)
• South Park ~ full map (large image)
• Spalding Place ~ full map (large image)
• Talmadge Gates ~ full map (large image)
• The Bishop's School ~ full map (large image)
• Theosophical Institute, Point Loma ~ full map (large image)
• Valle Vista Terrace ~ 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

• Arnold & Choates/North Florence Heights
• 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
• Inspiration Heights
• Kuchamaa
• La Jolla Park Coastal
• 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 - Mount Ecclesia
• San Diego Civic Center
• San Diego State College
• Table Mountain District
• Talmadge Park Estates

[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

San Diego Modernism Historic Context Statement (154-page pdf, 7.8mb)
Time is Not on Our Side By Allen Hazard