The Presidio of San Francisco is a park and former U.S. Army post on the northern tip of the San Francisco Peninsula in San Francisco, California, and is part of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area.
Wine Country is the region of California, in the northern San Francisco Bay Area, known worldwide as a premier wine-growing region. The region is famed for its wineries, its cuisine, Michelin star restaurants, boutique hotels, luxury resorts, historic architecture, and culture. Viticulture and wine-making have been practiced in the region since the Spanish missionaries from Mission San Francisco Solano established the first vineyards in 1812.
Sonoma Valley is a valley located in southeastern Sonoma County, California, in the North Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area. Known as the birthplace of the California wine industry, the valley is home to some of the earliest vineyards and wineries in the state, some of which survived the phylloxera epidemic of the 1870s and the impact of prohibition in the early 20th century. Today, the valley's wines are promoted by the U.S. federal government's Sonoma Valley and Carneros AVAs.
The Arroyo Seco, meaning "dry stream" in Spanish, is a 24.9-mile-long (40.1 km) seasonal river, canyon, watershed, and cultural area in Los Angeles County, California. The area was explored by Gaspar de Portolà who named the stream Arroyo Seco as this canyon had the least water of any he had seen. During this exploration he met the Chief Hahamog-na (Hahamonga) of the Tongva Indians.
A California Historical Landmark (CHL) is a building, structure, site, or place in the U.S. state of California that has been determined to have statewide historical landmark significance.
Hammel, Green and Abrahamson (HGA) is an architecture, engineering, and planning firm that originated in Minnesota. It was founded in 1953 by Minnesotans Dick Hammel and Curt Green.
Frederick Monhoff was an American architect, artist, and illustrator. His architectural style ranged from art deco to mid-century modern, while his etchings of the 1920s-30s documented scenes of Native American and Mexican life in the American Southwest.
Myron Hubbard Hunt was an American architect whose numerous projects include many noted landmarks in Southern California and Evanston, Illinois. Hunt was elected a Fellow in the American Institute of Architects in 1908.
Pasadena City Hall is the historic city hall of Pasadena, California, United States. Completed in 1927, it combines elements of both Mediterranean Revival and Spanish Colonial Revival style architecture, and is a significant architectural example of the City Beautiful movement of the 1920s.
Founded in 1981, the Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy is a nonprofit cooperating association that supports park stewardship and conservation in the Golden Gate National Recreation Area—the most visited national park in the U.S.
Castello di Amorosa is a winery located near Calistoga, California. The winery opened to the public in April 2007, as the project of a fourth-generation vintner, Dario Sattui, who also owns and operates the V. Sattui Winery named after his great-grandfather, Vittorio Sattui, who originally established a winery in San Francisco in 1885 after emigrating from Italy to California.
Beringer Vineyards is a large winery in St. Helena, California. Founded in 1876, Beringer Vineyards is "the oldest continuously operating winery in the Napa Valley", and is listed under both the National Register of Historic Places and as a California Historical Landmark. In 1934 it was the first California winery to offer public tours and wine tasting following the repeal of Prohibition. In 1939, Beringer invited attendees of the Golden Gate International Exposition to visit the winery; the winery also invited Hollywood stars including Clark Gable, Charles Laughton, and Carole Lombard to visit.
Simpson Gumpertz & Heger Inc. (SGH) is a privately held ENR 500 engineering firm that designs, investigates, and rehabilitates structures and building enclosures. Their work encompasses commercial, institutional and residential buildings, transportation, water/wastewater, nuclear, science, and defense structure projects throughout the U.S. and over twenty foreign countries. SGH has 625 employees at eight offices in Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Houston, New York City, Oakland, Southern California and Washington, D.C.
Alan Hess is an American architect, author, lecturer and advocate for twentieth-century architectural preservation.
The California Digital Newspaper Collection (CDNC) is a freely-available, archive of digitized California newspapers; it is accessible through the project's website. The collection contains over six million pages from over forty-two million articles. The project is part of the Center for Bibliographical Studies and Research (CBSR) at the University of California Riverside.
Howard Backen is an American architect. He co-founded Backen, Arrigoni & Ross, now BAR Architects, following college and later founded Backen & Gillam Architects in Napa, California. At the latter firm, he primarily focuses on residential and winery projects. Eschewing narcissistic styles as fads, Backen opts for architectural design that mesh with the landscape and its occupants. He is credited for being a large influence on the architectural aesthetic of the Napa Valley.
John Marsh Davis was an American architect based in the San Francisco, California Bay Area. A graduate of the University of Oklahoma School of Architecture and a student of Bruce Goff from 1947 to 1955. Davis was known for his signature style of Organic Architecture in wineries, single family homes, and mixed use buildings in California and all over the world. He also was known for his organic interpretation of the American Craftsman style including the Alexander Julian Estate in Ridgefield, Fairfield County, Connecticut. In his design of the Joseph Phelps Winery he is referred to as "one of a cadre of architects who helped define California organic architecture". Some considered his aesthetic as bold and confrontational. John Marsh Davis' firm's most notable projects include winery architecture for Chateau Souverain Winery in Alexander Valley AVA, Joseph Phelps Winery, Sullivan Vineyards and Rutherford Hill Winery with his partner/architect Violeta Autumn as well as numerous private residences including the Donald Barbour house in Kentfield, California. Davis completed several projects with Joseph Phelps, who later bought the winery which bears his name. Phelps owned a large construction firm and he and Davis worked on Souverain Winery together. In his later career, Davis became well known for architectural landscaping.
Michael Painter was an American landscape architect and urban designer based in San Francisco, California. He was a fellow of the American Society of Landscape Architects. His most notable project is the Presidio Parkway, a roadway through the Presidio National Park from the Golden Gate Bridge. Other notable projects include the John F. Kennedy Grave Site at Arlington National Cemetery, the Great Highway/Ocean Beach Re-Construction in San Francisco, Children's Playground in Golden Gate Park, the College of San Mateo, Twin Peaks overlook in San Francisco, Hunter's Point Hilltop Park in San Francisco, AT&T Administrative Center in San Ramon, Lafayette Park and the Blair House in Washington D.C., Aquatic Park in Berkeley, Hennepin Center in Minneapolis, State Compensation Insurance Fund in San Francisco, Genentech Campus in South San Francisco, the HP Corporate Headquarters in Palo Alto, and the Asilomar Conference Center in Monterey.
