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The Santa Barbara Trust for Historic Preservation (SBTHP) is among recipients of Stop the Hate Program Funding (STH) for fiscal years 2022-23 and 2023-24, ....
The Santa Barbara Trust for Historic Preservation has proven itself adept at much that it undertook over its more than 50-year history. Not least was its commitment and ability to acquire properties that advanced its preservation goals. Besides El Paseo, there were literally dozens of real estate transactions that SBTHP has been involved with. In this column, I will mention three as indicative of the expansion and fulfillment of the organization’s interests and goals. The 1995 purchase of the Santa Inés Mission Mills properties, the acquisition and gift of the Castagnola parking lot in the area of El Presidio de Santa Bárbara in 2003, and the 2007 acquisition of Jimmy’s Oriental Gardens Restaurant and Bar represented multiple transactions, as each would eventually be conveyed to California State Parks. ....
We moved beyond the political tensions to building a state historic park in its many dimensions in the heart of downtown. Plus, we expanded our commitments to a full restoration of Casa de la Guerra and to creating a new park at Santa Inés Mission Mills. The 1990s were for me the halcyon years. Adobe reconstruction and restorations were central to the work of SBTHP, but key presidio area properties were also acquired during this time; many publications in the form of books, historical pamphlets and brochures were published; our Soldados del Presidio de Santa Bárbara, officially the city’s colonial militia, were formed; and with them and other volunteer programs our living history activities thrived. ....