It's hard to believe how much the world has changed in the last two months! We truly are living through unprecedented times. Fortunately, SOHO is a nimble organization with decades of institutional knowledge and extensive experience successfully dealing with sudden, unanticipated changes. Always open to new lessons and cultural...Read more
ADVOCACY & EDUCATION
Chase Bank Aims to Raze Iconic
New Formalist Building
Chase Bank intends to demolish the Pacific Beach branch of the Home Savings and Loan bank, an iconic New Formalist style building from 1977, before ti turns 45 years old. Chase...Read more
Oceanside's Top Gun House
Rolls to New Home
Best known as the Top Gun house, for its appearance in the 1986 movie of the same name, and listed on SOHO's Most Endangered List back in 2001-2002, SOHO has been working...Read more
San Diego's Black Heritage and Historic Places
The history of historic preservation is similar to most professional fields in this country: It began with a focus on White culture, the founding fathers, etc. Its preponderance of powerful White historical narratives has radically skewed most Americans' views of...Read more
Otherworldly
La Rumorosa to be Protected
The Baja California government will start designation procedures for La Rumorosa as a Protected Zone. According to the state's preservation...Read more
ACHP Launches Traditional Trades Training Task Force
The national Advisory Council on Historic Preservation announced the formation of the ACHP Traditional Trades Training Task Force in...Read more
Calling Preservation Professionals
To all restoration and preservation professionals, we know that your businesses have likely been affected by the COVID pandemic. That's why we want...Read more
Great American Outdoors Act
Passes!
The U.S. Senate overwhelmingly approved legislation on June 26, that will provide the greatest investment in historic and cultural resources on our public lands in more than a generation....Read more
San Diego City & County Designations
The Historical Resources Board was very busy during Preservation Month designating five new historical resources, including one associated with a well-known local publisher,...Read more
MUSEUMS & EVENTS
SOHO Debuts
"The Marston Legacy" Online
Remarkable doesn't begin to capture the selfless, visionary accomplishments and philanthropy of George W. Marston. This tireless civic leader, successful merchant, and prescient preservationist arrived in San Diego in 1870, two days after he turned 20, and fell in love with San Diego and its setting. He never stopped working to improve this place and the life of its citizens until his death,...Read more
Thinking About You
and Reopening Our Museums
SOHO has members and supporters all around the world, so wherever you are right now, we wish you well and hope you are in a place of safety and good health. Our thoughts are with you during this difficult time.....Read more
A Spoonful of Sugar Turns a Lemon into Lemonade
While our historic sites have been closed due to Covid-19, SOHO has turned this unexpected and historic event, into an opportunity, determined to make lemonade out of one of the biggest lemons of this century. Our...Read more
