The 42nd Annual California Preservation Conference will be held at the Pasadena Hilton Hotel.

Reserve your room. Room rates expire on April 10th, 2017! Here is the link to the list of participating hotels and reservation details.

Group Name: California Preservation Conference

Group Code: CPF16

Check-in: 10-MAY-2017 | Check-out: 14-MAY-2017

Phone Number: 626-577-1000

Special Room Rates: 1 KING BED from 179.00 USD/Night | 2 DOUBLE BEDS rates from 179.00 USD/Night

Pasadena Hilton

168 S Los Robles Ave

Pasadena, CA  91101[ https://goo.gl/maps/fXE1jBzmGTr ]

Registration is now open! Click on the button to the left to register immediately online. The early registration deadline is April 11, 2017.

You may download a registration form with pricing here.

The California Preservation Conference has become an essential gathering for California’s historic preservation community and offers a unique promotional opportunity.

You can support the conference as a Sponsor or Advertiser. There are many opportunities to promote your products and services to preservation professionals from all corners of California.

Sponsorship Program

Firms can support as a Conference Sponsor or an Annual Sponsor. Conference Sponsors gain maximum exposure for the duration of the Conference advertising period. Annual Sponsors gain exposure and benefits throughout the year.

• Conference and Annual Sponsorship Details -2016-2017
• Sponsorship Form – 2016-2017

Conference Program Advertising – Resource Directory

Purchasing advertising space in the Conference Program ensure that over 500 design professionals, government staff and non-profit leaders will see your company’s ad. This is a great resource directory for all conference attendees. All ads are full-color and sizes range from 1/4 page to a full page.

• Advertiser’s Form

Conference Exhibitor Tables

Purchasing exhibition space at the conference center provides prominent exposure to our 500+ attendees. Exhibitors receive full access to the conference (excluding ticketed events)

• Exhibitor’s Form

Exposure, Access to Leaders in Preservation

– Conference Sponsorship Matrix – 
 – Sponsorship Commitment Form – 
 – Program Advertising Form – 
 – Conference Exhibitor Form –

The California Preservation Foundation and its partners and Program Committee identified 30+ sessions, mobile workshops, and study tours that reflect this year’s conference theme and tracks.

Five tracks were identified and the the following sessions will be presented at the conference. Check our website for updates to the programs and schedule.

Tracks, Sessions, and Mobile Workshops

The Best Laid Plans: Case Studies in Preservation Planning

This track explores the often complicated issues facing historic preservation planners using a variety of interesting and engaging real world examples. Sessions address appropriate infill construction in historic districts, campus planning, issues in preserving a City Beautiful-era civic center, financial tools, and applying preservation standards to historic infrastructure. Don’t let your project go awry!

Bridges to Inclusion: Linking Equity and Historic Preservation

This track explores the nexus between socio-economic equity and historic preservation. The discussions and case studies that make up this track highlight the multifaceted challenges, efforts, and victories encountered by professionals seeking the conservation of California’s diverse heritage. Join us as we cover topics like obtaining formal designation for culturally significant resources and making historic housing affordable to contesting gentrification in historic neighborhoods.

From the Ground UP: Cultural Landscapes

Explore the variety and intricacies of documenting, treating and managing cultural landscapes. Sessions will address historic landscape design, managing multiple layers of significance, changing climate challenges, and documenting diverse resources on Historic Route 66. Learn from the ground up!

Resiliency & Preservation: Preparing for Disaster and Change in the 21st Century

The concept of resiliency is more than preparing for and responding to natural disasters. Resilient communities must adapt to a wide array of additional stresses, including climate change; income disparity; technological change; and shifting social norms. This track explores the challenges and opportunities in developing the capacity to respond to natural disasters and 21st century changes, while conserving our shared heritage.

Analyze This: 40 Ways to Capture Reality

Explore a range of tools, methods and technologies for documenting existing buildings; capturing detail and characteristics of our heritage. Whether you are looking to map the historic assets of an entire city, record a structure or just investigate a recurring damp patch, this track will provide an overview of the many options available. There will be opportunities for both beginners and experienced and professionals looking at advanced uses of technology in preservation. Get your hands dirty through interactive workshops and more!

The conference program includes all event details. Please download the program here.

STUDY TOUR      WED      10-May-17          9:00 AM – 12:30 PM

Adapting a Historic Stadium for a New Century

The Rose Bowl in Pasadena is one of a very few National Historic Landmark sports facilities in the nation. This in-depth exploration of the iconic stadium will illustrate the challenges and solutions realized in a six-year construction project that transformed the Rose Bowl into a technologically and economically viable venue while retaining the integrity of “America’s Stadium.” The tour leader has 20 years’ experience experience with the assessment and rehabilitation of two NHLs: the Rose Bowl and the Memorial Coliseum.

STUDY TOUR      WED      10-May-17          9:00 AM – 12:30 PM

Historic San Gabriel Mission District Tour

The San Gabriel Mission remains one of the best preserved missions in California. This special access tour by expert guides visits the historic Mission District, including the Lopez de Lowther adobe, museums, and the iconic Mission Playhouse. The Playhouse was dedicated in 1927 built by John Steven McGroarty for his famed “Mission Play.” Today the theater looks much as it did when it opened, complete with tapestries presented by the King of Spain, a beautifully carved and painted ceiling, a fully operational Wurlitzer Theatre Organ – which will be demonstrated – and chandeliers that replicate the lanterns used on Spanish galleons.

STUDY TOUR      WED      10-May-17          9:00 AM – 12:30 PM

Exploring Los Angeles’ Union Station: History, Architecture, Rehabilitation and Future Vision

Follow in the footsteps of tourists, adventurers and winter-weary Easterners. Since 1939, Los Angeles’ Union Station has captivated multitudes. Learn about the station’s history, architecture, rehabilitation and master plan. Travel by Metro Gold Line light rail from Pasadena to Los Angeles’ Union Station. Designed as an ode to Los Angeles’ Spanish past, Union Station’s architecture highlights Southern California life. Its construction— early urban renewal—displaced much of L.A.’s original Chinatown. Now undergoing an extensive rehabilitation and upgrades to meet twenty-first century travel needs, current projects at Union Station will provide behind-the-scenes lessons in adapting a National Historic Landmark railroad station into an efficient intermodal transportation hub now serving over 70,000 people a day.

This tour involves extensive walking. Please let us know if you have special needs.

WORKSHOP       WED      10-May-17          9:00 PM – 12:00 PM

PART II: Displacing Gentrification: Perseverance & Preservation of Urban Latino Community and Culture

This workshop will include advocates on the front-lines of Los Angeles Latino Neighborhoods threatened by gentrification, including Boyle Heights, South Central, Eagle Rock, and Highland Park. Explore how other Latino neighborhoods have enacted preservation and other land use tools to protect their communities. Case studies of each neighborhood will help train attendees in the most effective tools to stem the tide of development in low-income, historic communities.

WORKSHOP       WED      10-May-17          1:00 PM – 5:00 PM

Community Engagement Workshop

This half-day interactive workshop will help you engage your community to meet specific preservation goals. Using everyone’s experiences and best practices, we’ll explore broad issues and create specific action plans for mobilizing the right people, at the right time, in the right way.

STUDY TOUR      WED      10-May-17          1:30 PM – 5:00 PM

Restoration and Seismic Retrofit of Los Angeles City Hall

Tour the iconic Art Deco 1928 Los Angeles City Hall. Get an inside look at the Rotunda, North and South Hallways, City Council Chamber and Board of Public Works Session Room. Ascend to the 27th floor observation deck for spectacular views. You will get a rare glimpse at the building’s base isolator system and moat. Wear comfortable clothing and closed-toe shoes to access non-public spaces. Photo ID and liability release required.

Part of this tour may have limited access. Please let us know if you have accessibility needs.

STUDY TOUR      WED      10-May-17          1:30 PM – 5:00 PM

Pasadena Bungalow Courts: Then & Now

Pasadena is the original “Home of the Bungalow Court,” with nearly 200 built between 1909 and WWII. Styles ranged from Craftsman to Tudor, Spanish Colonial Revival – even Art Deco. Get an overview of this unique architectural type and its history. Visit at least two signature bungalow courts, including National Register-listed Gartz Court and Bryan Court, with interior visits. Visit other bungalow courts, time permitting.

STUDY TOUR      WED      10-May-17          2:00 PM – 4:00 PM

Historic Highland Park Walking Tour

Follow the Highland Park Heritage Trust on an exclusive tour of Highland Park’s iconic historic sites. You’ll get a glimpse at layers of history in this compact, downtown designated district, from its Native American roots, to Spanish Land Grant, to downtown commercial district and automobile-oriented, Route 66 corridor. The Highland Park – Garvanza Historic Preservation Overlay Zone encompasses over 4,000 structures, including over 50 Historic-Cultural Monuments. Visit ‘Chicken Boy’, the Highland Park Masonic Temple, Highland Theater, and the Manning’s Coffee sign – perhaps the first neon sign in Los Angeles.

MOBILE WORKSHOP      THURS  11-May-17          2:00 PM – 5:00 PM

Hands On: Documenting Pasadena

This mobile workshop will give participants the opportunity to discover hands-on the topics covered in the “Analyze This” classroom session, from macro-level SurveyLA data capture to micro measurement tools and architectural photography. You’ll examine laser scanning and other non-destructive evaluation (NDE) tools that can measure and document interiors of buildings. See how ground penetrating radar and thermal imaging can assess the hidden components of buildings not visible to the naked eye.

MOBILE WORKSHOP      THURS  11-May-17          2:00 PM – 5:00 PM

Affordable Housing and Historic Preservation Tour

Heritage Housing Partners (HHP) is the only non-profit organization in California promoting long-term affordable homeownership through the preservation of existing historic homes and the construction of new, contextual homes. To date, HHP has sold over 80 affordable homes to income-qualifying homebuyers and has 120 units in development, including everything from bungalows designed by anonymous builders to apartment buildings by Greene and Greene. Get a behind-the-scenes tour of HHP projects in Pasadena while closely examining entitlement, construction, and financial challenges of breathing new life into historic buildings for first-time homebuyers.

MOBILE WORKSHOP      FRI          12-May-17          2:00 PM – 5:00 PM

Pasadena’s Iconic Civic Center

Pasadena’s Civic Center was originally conceived between 1922 and 1926 by the planning and architectural firm Bennett, Parsons & Frost and was rooted in the City Beautiful movement, with an axial arrangement of public buildings in monumental Mediterranean styles. Since its genesis, planning trends for the Civic Center have come and gone. You will examine the effects of these trends. Examine the primary historical buildings, as well as buildings associated with Urban Renewal that were later modified by New Urbanism, which attempted to restore major components of the original Bennett Plan. End the tour with a review of proposed development projects.

MOBILE WORKSHOP      FRI          12-May-17          2:00 PM – 5:15 PM

Historic Little Tokyo in the 21st Century – Protecting Cultural Identity, Affordability, and Mobility for a New Generation

Tour Little Tokyo to see how the “Sustainable Little Tokyo” initiative addresses development pressure, affordability, and transit infrastructure to ensure a healthy, equitable, and culturally-rich neighborhood for future generations.

STUDY TOUR      SAT        13-May-17          9:00 AM – 4:00 PM

Saving Pasadena – 40 Years of Preservation Progress with Pasadena Heritage

Pasadena Heritage Executive Director, Sue Mossman and other knowledgeable guides will give you an inside glimpse of iconic Pasadena. Visit some of the city’s most beloved places, including Old Pasadena; the Civic Center, a National Register Historic District; the National Historic Landmark Rose Bowl Stadium; Arroyo Seco; the 1913 Colorado Street Bridge; and the 1947 Bullocks/Macy’s Department Store. Immerse yourself in Bungalow Heaven, the first local Landmark District; the Hillcrest area, featuring the Greene and Greene-designed Blacker House; Gartz Court; and more. Along the way, you’ll learn strategies for successful advocacy illustrated by real-life examples on the tour.

STUDY TOUR      SAT        13-May-17          9:00 AM – 4:00 PM

Pastoral Pasadena

Explore four twentieth-century Arroyo residential landscapes with a landscape architect and landscape historians. Following a cultural landscapes session at the Gamble House, we’ll explore two residential Arroyo Arts & Crafts landscapes through the interpretive cultural landscape lens. Next, we’ll visit two Japanese-style gardens: the masterwork Storrier Stearns by Kinzuchi Fujii and the King Residence gardens designed by Howard Oshiyama, located under the soaring Colorado Street Bridge. Boxed lunch included; space limited!

Volunteers Needed!

Do you want a front row seat at the premier statewide preservation conference to be held at the Pasadena Hilton, Pasadena, May 10 – 13, 2017?

Volunteers are needed for a variety of activities including assisting with registration, sessions, tours, and special events during the entire conference. For every session you volunteer for, you get to attend a session for free! For those who are volunteering for workshops, events or tours you get to attend that workshop, event, or tour for free! If you are interested in volunteering, please submit the volunteer form after reading the volunteer information.

Volunteer for the 2017 Conference

Volunteer Contact Information

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Mandatory Volunteer Training Selection

Please Select Which Mandatory Volunteer Orientation Session You Will Attend (2 Hours). Note: These are online training sessions. *

Friday, May 4, 2018, 10:00 AM

Monday, May 7, 2018, 10:00 AM

Preferred Volunteer Dates and Times

Please check off the time slots during which you are available to volunteer during the Conference.

WEDNESDAY, MAY 10th, 2017

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THURSDAY, MAY 11th, 2017

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FRIDAY, MAY 12th, 2017

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SATURDAY, MAY 13th, 2017

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Conference Volunteering Preferences

Please rank your Conference volunteering preferences in order (1 - 6). Please only use each number once.

Registration Area (includes Auction & Exhibitors) * 123456

Technical (set-up, monitor, and troubleshoot A/V systems) * 123456

Educational Sessions & Workshops * 123456

Set-up or Breakdown * 123456

Study Tours or Mobile Workshops * 123456

Special Events * 123456

If there are specific Pre-Conference Workshops, Educational Sessions, Mobile Workshops, Study Tours, or Special Events you would like to volunteer at, please note them here (a schedule is available on the CPF website - assignments will be given on a first-come, first-served basis)

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If you have any questions about volunteering, please call (415) 495-0349 x200 or email cpf@californiapreservation.org.

The Three-Minute Success Stories event is an opportunity to present your very own preservation success story!

• Three Minute Success Stories Guidelines & Application – 2017

The Three-Minute Success Stories has been a California Preservation Foundation tradition stretching back to the 3rd Annual California Preservation Conference in 1978. While humor often comes to the fore, the program also gives preservationists a chance to present local successes to a statewide audience, sharing a wide variety of preservation experiences in lively and entertaining ways.

Three-Minute Success Stories have told of buildings restored after earthquakes, giant industrial cranes being relocated, enlightening adaptive reuse, modern architecture coming of age, community efforts overcoming all odds to save an important local landmark, and historic places saved from bulldozers at the last moment. Be adventurous!

The application and guidelines are now available so tell your success story with style and humor!