Thursday, April 27, 2006

Historic Resources QUIZ

Of the following 5 city-owned properties, which 2 properties are NOT on the City's Inventory of Historic Resources?

1. Carmel Fire Station

2. City Hall

3. Devendorf Park

4. Forest Theater

5. Sunset Community & Cultural Center

Answer on Sunday, 30 April 2006.

ANSWER: Amazingly, the following 2 historic properties are NOT on the City's Inventory of Historic Resources.

SUNSET COMMUNITY & CULTURAL CENTER

The Sunset Center is one of only 3 Carmel-by-the-Sea properties on the National Register of Historic Places; the other two are the Carmel Mission (Mission San Carlos de Borromeo del Rio Carmelo) and "Outlands," commonly referred to as the Flanders Mansion.

Sunset Center ** (added 1998 - Building - #97001604)

Also known as Sunset School

San Carlos St., between 8th and 10th Sts., Carmel-by-the-Sea

Historic Significance: Architecture/Engineering, Event

Architect, builder, or engineer: et.al., Donovan, John J.

Architectural Style: Late Gothic Revival

Area of Significance: Entertainment/Recreation, Architecture, Education, Performing Arts

Period of Significance: 1925-1949

Owner: Local Gov't

Historic Function: Education, Recreation And Culture, Social

Historic Sub-function: Auditorium, Meeting Hall, Music Facility, School, Theater

Current Function: Recreation And Culture, Recreation And Culture, Social

Current Sub-function: Auditorium, Civic, Meeting Hall, Museum, Music Facility, Theater, Theater

(Source:http://www.nationalregisterofhistoricplaces.com/ca/Monterey/state.html)

FOREST THEATER

Carmel-by-the-Sea's Forest Theater is the “oldest outdoor theater west of the Rockies.” Around 1908, a group of visionaries, including Mary Austin, Herbert Heron and Michael Williams, conceived of the idea for locally produced, directed and acted plays in an open-air theater. It was subsequently founded in 1910; the first production at Carmel-by-the-Sea’s Outdoor Theater was “David.” The Forest Theater was deeded to the city of Carmel-by-the-Sea in 1937.

(Source: http://www.foresttheaterguild.org/)

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