tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36810284583492304522024-03-13T02:23:31.899-07:00APIAHiP Endangered Sites Watch ListAsian and Pacific Islander American historic and cultural resources threatened by demolition, neglect, inappropriate development, or insensitive public policy.Asian & Pacific Islander Americans in Historic Preservationhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08527961023976673193noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3681028458349230452.post-85921955880076570682014-09-13T01:07:00.001-07:002014-09-13T13:31:29.467-07:00Tule Lake Segregation Center, Modoc County, CA<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Threat: </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="text-indent: 0in;">Inappropriate development; Insensitive public policy</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Owner: City of Tulelake owns the Tulelake Airport at the Tule Lake Segregation Center site </span></span></h2>
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<tr align="left"><td class="tr-caption"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Tule Lake stockade gate. Photo courtesy of Tule Lake Committee.</span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Tule
Lake Concentration Camp and Segregation Center was a Japanese American
concentration camp operated by the US government from 1942-1946 in Modoc
County, Northern California. During WWII, the US government suspended the rule
of law and the Constitution and forcibly removed and imprisoned 120,000
Japanese Americans in ten concentration camps located in desolate regions of
the nation. Those who spoke out or resisted the government’s violation of their
human and civil rights were smeared as disloyal pro-Japan
extremists. Absent hearings or trials, these dissidents were segregated to
the maximum security Tule Lake concentration camp and subjected to abuse and an
unprecedented, little-known, denationalization program. This is the only
time in our nation’s history when more than 5,500 American citizens were
stripped of their U.S. citizenship so the government could legally deport them
to Japan after the war. The wartime protest and segregation of dissenters
at Tule Lake has been buried for nearly 70 years, marginalized as a story of
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Tule
Lake Concentration Camp and Segregation Center is threatened by Modoc
County’s plans to construct an enormous, 3-mile long 8-foot perimeter fence
around the Tulelake Airport, which it says will prevent wildlife strikes, even
though no such strikes have been recorded during the entire existence of the
airport beginning in the 1950s. Such a fence would destroy portions of the
historic site and close off access to a place of remembrance, a place of
mourning, a place where thousands of lives were destroyed.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-indent: 0in;">In
January 2014, the County approved a 5-year, $3.5 million plan to refurbish and
develop airport. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has the power to
stop the destruction of this unique civil and human rights site. We ask that the FAA stop granting funds
that will destroy the integrity of the site's historic resources, and that the
FAA assist in removal of the airport to a non-historically significant
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Website: <a href="http://www.tulelake.org/" target="_blank">www.tulelake.org</a></span></span></span></div>
Christinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04066704338443179678noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3681028458349230452.post-55223277162193097632014-09-12T20:09:00.000-07:002014-09-13T13:24:12.239-07:00Chinatown House, Rancho Cucamonga, CA<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
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<tr align="left"><td class="tr-caption"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Rear facade, view northeast. Photo courtesy of O.C. Lee</span></span>.</td><td class="tr-caption"></td><td class="tr-caption"></td><td class="tr-caption"></td><td class="tr-caption"><br /></td></tr>
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Chinatown House in Rancho Cucamonga, California was built in 1919 by and for
Chinese workers. These men represented the remaining population of a Cucamonga community,
which developed well before 1900 as veterans of railroad building of earlier
decades worked their way south into the orchards, vineyards, and citrus groves
of Southern California. Of the 15-20 Chinatown settlements scattered across
Southern California during the 19th and early 20th centuries, this is
the last intact remaining building outside of Los Angeles’ Old Chinatown that
can help tell the story about the contributions of Chinese workers to the
regional agricultural economy. Built on ranch land owned by William Araiza, the
two-story building housed a general store with rooms and a dormitory for
perhaps 50. It functioned also as a rooming house for workers who lived in
outlying farms and came into town to socialize. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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House is constructed of walls with unreinforced hollow clay tile and clay
brick, multicolored center around shades of brown and sand giving a stirring
effect in the afternoon sun. After Mah Wong, the last Chinese resident who
passed in 1944, the property was sold to a local family, the Navarettes, and
subsequently to the Cucamonga Valley Water District in 1988. For the past
26 years, the building has been vacant. In 2013, cracks in the 90+ year old
mortar, sagging walls, and deteriorated roof led the City of Rancho Cucamonga
to issue an order to the Water District to correct structural problems or
demolish. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Endangered Places List in 2013. Thanks to vigorous community action, the City
Planning Commission concurred with preservation advocates that the threatened
demolition represented “demolition by neglect,” and that a full environmental
impact report should be required prior to issuance of any demolition permit.
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">The 1910 building of the Wintersburg Japanese </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Presbyterian </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Mission. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Historic Wintersburg is a Japanese American
pioneer property located in north Huntington Beach, Orange County,
California. The approximately five-acre property contains six extant
structures: the 1910 Wintersburg Japanese Presbyterian Mission, the 1910 Manse
(parsonage), the 1934 Depression-era Wintersburg Japanese Presbyterian Church,
the 1912 Furuta family bungalow, the 1947 post-World War II Furuta ranch house,
and the Furuta barn, built between 1908 to 1912.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Once a goldfish and flower farm, the property
pre-dates California’s Alien Land Law of 1913—prohibiting Japanese immigrant
property ownership—and is home to the “oldest Japanese church in Southern
California.” The Mission is part of California’s Japanese Mission
Trail, beginning 50 years after the last Spanish Mission, with the work of Dr.
Ernest Adolphus Sturge, later presented the Order of the Rising Sun by the
Emperor of Japan. The Mission buildings are the oldest
surviving Japanese‐American religious structures in Southern California.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Historic Wintersburg was the heart of Orange
County’s Japanese community. The Mission also supported language
schools and social activities for the Japanese community around Orange
County. The property was designated by the City of Huntington Beach
General Plan as a local landmark in the mid-1970s. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In November 2013, the City of Huntington
Beach approved an amendment to change the existing General Plan land use
designation for the Historic Wintersburg property, which is currently owned by
Rainbow Environmental Services, a waste disposal company. Although no new
development, or active use was proposed, Rainbow Environmental Services also
sought approval to demolish, or remove all of the property’s structures. The
Wintersburg Preservation Task Force has been given an 18-month window to raise
funds to purchase the land, or, failing that, to move the buildings to a new
location. In
2014, the National Trust for Historic Preservation added Historic Wintersburg
to its 11 Most Endangered Places List.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mary
Adams Urashima, Chair<br />
Historic Wintersburg Preservation Task Force<br />
Huntington Beach City Hall<br />
2000 Main Street<br />
Huntington Beach, CA 92648<br />
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Christinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04066704338443179678noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3681028458349230452.post-8579064773807995862014-02-27T10:50:00.003-08:002014-09-13T13:47:20.354-07:00Riverside Chinatown Archaeological Site, Riverside, CA<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Riverside’s Chinatown dates back to 1885 and
is considered among the best-preserved early
Chinese American archaeological sites in the country. The site has been
designated a historic resource by federal, state, county, and city governments. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A central hub of the Chinese community in
Inland Southern California, Riverside’s Chinatown contains the remains of a
temple, business district, and permanent and temporary housing. Many of
Chinatown’s residents provided skilled labor to the region’s developing citrus
industry. Their centuries-old knowledge of citrus contributed to making
Riverside the richest city per capita in the U.S. by the turn of the 20th
century.</span><br />
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In October 2008, the City of Riverside approved a medical office development at
the site of Riverside’s Chinatown. The approved project would have resulted in the
loss of the site’s archaeological remains, considered to be one of the best
intact remains of an early Chinese American historic site. Local citizens successfully
challenged City approvals in court and have subsequently developed a vision
for a signature park that highlights the site’s social, cultural, and archaeological
values. </span><span style="background: white;">Despite widespread opposition, the developer and new out-of-town
business partners are continuing to seek entitlements for a medical office
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<!--StartFragment--><!--EndFragment--><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>For more information:</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">M. Rosalind Sagara, Chair</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Save Our Chinatown Committee</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">P.O. Box 55436</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Riverside, CA 92517</span><br />
<a href="mailto:saveourchinatown@gmail.com" target="_blank"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Email: saveourchinatown@gmail.com</span></a><br />
<span style="color: #0d0e00; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Websites: </span><a href="http://www.saveourchinatown.org/" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank">www.saveourchinatown.org</a><span style="color: #0d0e00; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> and </span><a href="http://facebook.com/savechinatown" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">facebook.com/savechinatown</a></div>
Christinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04066704338443179678noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3681028458349230452.post-87024459886605905332014-02-27T10:49:00.000-08:002014-09-13T01:10:20.848-07:00Defining "Threat"<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">You may be facing one or more of these threats to your community's historic resources<b>.</b></span><b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"> </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Demolition</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Destruction or dismantling
of a historic building, site, or landscape.</span><b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"> </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Neglect</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">‘Demolition by neglect’ is
a common and serious threat to historic buildings. An owner allows a site or
building to slowly deteriorate to the point that it can be deemed a safety
hazard, and therefore legally demolished.</span><b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"> </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Inappropriate Development</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Can refer to either: 1)
development not in keeping with the architectural or historic character of its
surrounding neighborhood, or 2) development that impedes interpretation of a
significant historic site or cultural landscape.</span><b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"> </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Insensitive Public Policy</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Broadly defined as legislation that impedes the
awareness and protection of a community’s historic resources.</span>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We review applications on an ongoing basis. Email the following information to apiahipsites@gmail.com:</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1. Name of resource</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">2. Location</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">3. Provide a brief description of the
site and its significance (maximum 250 words)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">4. Describe the nature and urgency of
the threat* (maximum 250 words)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">5. Contact information (full name, address, phone, email, website)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Attach minimum two photos of the resource
(maximum file size 1 MB). By submitting photos, you indicate that you agree to
our use on our blog and APIAHiP-affiliated websites.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><br /></b></span>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>*Defining threat:</b></span><b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i> </i></span></b><br />
<br />
<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Demolition</i></span></b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Destruction or dismantling of a historic building, site, or landscape.</span><b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i> </i></span></b><br />
<br />
<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Neglect</i></span></b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">‘Demolition by neglect’ is a common and serious threat to historic buildings. An owner allows a site or building to slowly deteriorate to the point that it can be deemed a safety hazard, and therefore legally demolished.</span><b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i> </i></span></b><br />
<br />
<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Inappropriate Development</i></span></b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Can refer to either: 1) development not in keeping with the architectural or historic character of its surrounding neighborhood, or 2) development that impedes interpretation of a significant historic site or cultural landscape.</span><b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i> </i></span></b><br />
<br />
<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Insensitive Public Policy</i></span></b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Broadly defined as legislation that impedes the awareness and protection of a community’s historic resources.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In addition to APIAHiP's Endangered Sites Watch List, we provide letters of support for preservation-related projects.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> To request a letter of support, submit a 1-3 page issue summary to <span style="color: blue;"><a href="mailto:apiahipsites@gmail.com">apiahipsites@gmail.com</a>.</span></span></div>
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