Preservationists on Preservationists

Part of San Francisco Heritage's 2020 Lecture Series. On November 19, “Preservationists on Preservationists” featured women architects and preservationists sharing photos and anecdotes about their favorite women preservationists and their contributions to the field, both past and present.

This fun program highlighted some of the important milestones and lasting legacies created by women working in preservation! Our speakers:

-Elisa Hernandez Skaggs (SF Heritage Board Member; Associate Principal at Page & Turnbull)
-Katherine Petrin (SF Heritage Board Member; Architectural Historian and Preservation Planner)
-Shayne Watson (Historian and Preservation Planner)
-Diane Matsuda (San Francisco Historic Preservation Commission)

Our evening also honored Alice Ross Carey, who was a champion in the preservation community. Alice worked to preserve countless historic buildings, including the New Mission Theater and the Fairmont Hotel Tonga Room in San Francisco. She received a California Governor’s Historic Preservation Awards posthumously in 2013 for her dedication and work in the field of historic preservation.