ABSTRACT: An informative and interesting article on preservationist Enid Sales in the San Francisco Chronicle by Dave Weinstein. Highlights are presented and a link to the article.
In the January 19, 2008 edition of the San Francisco Chronicle, Dave Weinstein wrote an informative and interesting article about Enid Sales and her work as a preservationist in an article entitled, URBAN RENEWAL Enid Sales helped save San Francisco's Victorian homes and never backed away from a preservation fight.
Highlights include, as follows:
• Biography of Enid Sales
• Preservationist of the Year in 2006 by the California Preservation Foundation
• Over 50 years, as a builder and advocate, Enid Sales “helped define the modern movement for historic preservation.”
• As head of the San Francisco Redevelopment Agency’s residential rehabilitation program, Enid Sales preserved more than 350 Victorians in San Francisco
• “Where to see Enid Sales’ work” in San Francisco, Carmel and Monterey.
• Goal: Making historically or architecturally valuable homes livable while preserving their original style and fabric.
• Active: Sales has been restoring historic homes since the early 1950s in San Francisco, Healdsburg and Carmel.
• Known for: Saving hundreds of Victorians in San Francisco and advocating for preservation on the Monterey Peninsula.
• On Carmel-by-the-Sea, Enid Sales said, "We have been trying to save this fragile community, but unfortunately we really haven't succeeded.”
1 comment:
I admire Enid Sales for her tenacity and preservation work, especially saving the old Victorian residences in San Francsico and the Marsh building in Monterey. I think, though, the city has not been prudent in their inventory of historic residences, too many DPRs with too many errors to be declared historic. The city has erred in listing property owners residences without our consent and then not following through with a Mills act contract. I also think it is the city's own brochure about preservation which doesn't even mention the Mills Act by name as a taxbreak for register property owners. The city lists us on an inventory, but doesn't see to it that we get a taxbreak, a commensuate incentive for all the grief of having to comply with all the regulations. The program is so obviously unfair, you don't even have to be a historic property owner to understand it.
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