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Dear Members & Friends of Claremont Heritage,
Please find the March update on Preservation Issues for your information. Our mission is to advance, preserve and celebrate the historic architectural, natural and cultural resources of our community through collaboration, education and advocacy.
Why Historic Preservation Matters
As a community we are given the opportunity to preserve and protect significant resources that contribute to our historic experience. Encouraging each generation to utilize the best of contemporary thought and technology without rejecting our history, culture and traditions, creates a sense of continuity and diversity that is the very fabric of our unique community.
Claremont Heritage is your community advocate for the preservation of our historic resources! We could not do it without your help and support. Becoming a member or supporting our initiatives helps to maintain and grow our preservation and education programs. We also depend on Volunteers to help achieve our mission - please consider being part of an inclusive community organization that honors the past to inform the future.
Volunteer opportunities are available HERE
 David Shearer, Executive Director
Please feel free to contact us directly with any preservation issues that Claremont Heritage should be concerned with. (909)621-0848 or info@claremontheritage.org
ARCHITECTURAL
| HISTORIC RESOURCES SURVEY | Reveals Hidden Treasure
 As many of you may know, Claremont Heritage is in the process of updating our local Historic Register by completing a Historic Resources Survey. We are focusing on structures that are considered from the Recent Past - 1940s - 1960s and now over 50 years old, one of the requirements to be included on our local register. Once the survey is complete, it will be submitted to the Planning Department for review and recommendation to the Architectural Commission for ratification.
We have had some interesting surprises while completing this process, and one of the more significant ones is the discovery of a home in the Claremont Village designed by master architect Paul R. Williams F.A.I.A.
Paul Revere Williams, FAIA (February 18, 1894 - January 23, 1980) was an American architect based in Los Angeles, California. He practiced largely in Southern California and designed the homes of numerous celebrities, including Frank Sinatra, Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz, Lon Chaney, and Charles Correll. He also designed many public and private buildings.
Orphaned at four years of age, Williams was the only African American student in his elementary school. He studied at the Los Angeles School of Art and Design and at the Los Angeles branch of the New York Beaux-Arts Institute of Design Atelier, subsequently working as a landscape architect. He went on to attend the University of Southern California, School of Engineering, designing several residential buildings while still a student there. Williams became a certified architect in 1921, and the first certified African-American architect west of the Mississippi.
The home just recently came on the market and an open house occurs this Sunday - here is an opportunity to view a historic and significant Claremont home - for more information click HERE
NATURAL ENVIRONMENT
| EARTH DAY 2015 - SATURDAY APRIL 18th | 10:00 am - 3:00 pm | 2nd Street Claremont
Take the CLAREMONT ENERGY CHALLENGE For a Brighter Future!
 Claremont's Seventh Annual Earth Day event is coming up -- 10:00 am-3:00 pm on April 18th along 2nd Street in Claremont. Come check out live music, a solar boat, green products and demonstrations, local schools' and colleges' exhibits, a tasting booth of local restaurants' earth-friendly fare, a village merchant feature booth, and kids' activities! You can meet and interact with the presenting organizations, Sustainable Claremont, the City of Claremont, and the Interfaith Sustainability Council, and don't forget to visit Claremont Heritage who will have a booth focused on an often over-looked sustainable development practice: "Preservation = Sustainability". Sustainable Claremont Garden Club Garden Tour | Sunday April 19th | 1:00 - 4:00 pm "Claremont Eclectic: A Tour of Six Local Gardens". Don't miss this opportunity to visit some outstanding and varied gardens on Sunday, April 19, from 1 to 4 pm! The price of the ticket ($20) includes admission to Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden on the day (which will be having its annual Wildflower Show) as well as a second admission to RSABG within 30 days. You can purchase tickets online now and up to the night before the tour, or buy them at the RSABG admissions kiosk, Claremont Heritage, Rio de Ojas, and Vom Fass Claremont.
| CLAREMONT HERITAGE ORAL HISTORY PROJECT | Claremont Stories Initiative  Andrew Perchuk of the Getty Research Institute conducting an oral history interview with Karl Benjamin for Pacific Standard Time in 2010. © J. Paul Getty Trust Oral history is a field of study and a method of gathering, preserving and interpreting the voices and memories of people, communities, and participants in past events. Oral history is both the oldest type of historical inquiry, predating the written word, and one of the most modern, initiated with tape recorders in the 1940s and now using 21st-century digital technologies. Claremont Heritage has completed a number Oral Histories over the years and is now working to create multimedia presentations that can be distributed via the internet and made available to the general public in a dynamic and culturally rich format. Claremont Heritage is currently launching the Claremont Stories initiative that will complete oral/visual histories to record and preserve the stories that define Claremont as a vibrant, creative and culturally diverse community. These stories will offer a rich historical context that will help to bring people of varied generational and cultural constituencies together, to not only celebrate and honor the past, but to inspire the future as well. We will be scheduling interviews in the coming weeks and will have a mobile recording unit that will be available at various community events in Claremont - please contact us if you are interesting in helping to fund, volunteer or participate in this exciting project! Please Contact: info@claremontheritage.org
PO Box 742 (mailing)
840 N Indian Hill Blvd (office)
Located in the Historic Garner House in Memorial Park
hours: Monday - Friday 9:00 am - 1:00 PM
(909) 621-0848
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