Jarrell Jackman: Santa Barbara Presidio Hosts More ‘Mudslinging’ and a World-Class Exhibition
Restoration project builds to groundbreaking display of early ceramics and their homemade importance to Spanish California
Then-Santa Barbara Mayor Marty Blum, center, celebrates progress on the Presidio Northwest Corner Project with Santa Barbara Trust for Historic Preservation board, staff, supporters and other guests in 2008. (Santa Barbara Trust for Historic Preservation photo)
The reconstructed adobe defense wall of the Presidio northwest corner. This 165-foot section represents about 10 percent of the original defense wall the Spanish built in the 1780s. (Jarrell Jackman photo)
Presidio northwest corner foundation work, circa 2008. The foundation was being completely rebuilt with no concrete used except in the mortar and the standing pylon that provides the building with seismic protection. In the presidio’s early years, boulders were carted in wagons to the site from the bea