Friday, July 29, 2016

California State Historical Resources Commission Agenda, July 29, 2016: CONSENT CALENDAR National Register of Historic Places, New Nominations, Mrs. Clinton Walker House Carmel-by-the-Sea, Monterey County

ABSTRACT: On Friday, July 29, 2016, the California State Historical Resources Commission is scheduled to consider 10 nominations for federal historic designation and one nomination for state historic designation, including the Clinton Walker House, Carmel-by-the-Sea, Monterey County. The National Register of Historic Places Registration Form (Historic name: Walker, Mrs. Clinton, House), News Release  California State Historical Resources Commission To Consider Eleven Properties for Action and  REGULAR QUARTERLY MEETING OF THE STATE HISTORICAL RESOURCES COMMISSION AGENDA, Friday, July 29, 2016, document copies are embedded. 

SHRC Meeting Minutes
2016 Minutes
Name of Property
Historic name: Walker, Mrs. Clinton, House
News Release
California State Historical Resources Commission To Consider Eleven Properties for Action

SACRAMENTO, Calif.—The California State Historical Resources Commission is scheduled to consider 10 nominations for federal historic designation and one nomination for state historic designation. Nominations and photographs of properties under consideration are available at www.ohp.parks.ca.gov/pending.
The Commission will meet Friday, July 29, 2016, at 9:00 a.m. at the Woodland Opera House, 340 2nd Street, Woodland, California.
National Register of Historic Places nominations scheduled for action include:
 Walker House, Carmel-by-the-Sea, Monterey County
On a rocky promontory overlooking Carmel Bay, the only Usonian design house completed by Frank Lloyd Wright in a coastal environment. Usonian design elements include the use of natural and local materials, the construction of the building based on a modular unit, and the prioritization of nature by the integration of interior and exterior spaces opening out to views of the surrounding landscape.
STATE OF CALIFORNIA – THE NATURAL RESOURCES AGENCY
OFFICE OF HISTORIC PRESERVATION DEPARTMENT OF PARKS AND RECREATION
REGULAR QUARTERLY MEETING OF THE STATE HISTORICAL RESOURCES COMMISSION AGENDA
DATE: Friday, July 29, 2016

X. CONSENT CALENDAR*

A. National Register of Historic Places, New Nominations

3. Mrs. Clinton Walker House
Carmel-by-the-Sea, Monterey County
Local Level of Significance; Criterion C

REFERENCE:
U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service
Criteria for Evaluation
The quality of significance in American history, architecture, archeology, engineering, and culture is present in districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects that possess integrity of location, design, setting, materials, workmanship, feeling, and association, and:
A. That are associated with events that have made a significant contribution to the broad patterns of our history; or
B. That are associated with the lives of significant persons in our past; or
C. That embody the distinctive characteristics of a type, period, or method of construction, or that represent the work of a master, or that possess high artistic values, or that represent a significant and distinguishable entity whose components may lack individual distinction; or
D. That have yielded or may be likely to yield, information important in history or prehistory.

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