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Historic Preservation
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Due to a long tradition of historic preservation in Santa Barbara, the City has a vast amount of historic buildings, landscape elements and historic districts. Preserving our historic structures allows us to retain a tangible connection to our past as well as act as an inspiration for future progress. Protecting and promoting Santa Barbara’s valuable historic resources boosts civic pride, economic prosperity and gives residents as well as visitors a visual reminder of our shared heritage.
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Recently Designated Structures
Newest Historic Landmark. Santa Barbara’s City Council designated the Parkway running in the middle of State Street between Mission Street and Constance Avenue a historic Landmark on Tuesday, February 28, 2023. The Parkway was installed in 1917, representing Santa Barbara’s effort to use the suggestions of the City Beautiful Movement to add greenery, beauty and soften city Streets to improve the quality of life in City’s.
This Parkway was actually a huge planning effort initiated by one of the City Beautiful Movements most noted planers, Charles Mulford Robinson, who came to Santa Barbara in 1909 and specifically recommended a Parkway on Santa Barbara’s main artery, State Street. In addition, the extremely talented and respected master landscape architect Ralph Tallant Stevens and noted horticulturist Edward Owen Orpet recommended the elegant row of Pindo Palms adorn each section of the parkway.