Balancing Culture, Conservation, and Economic Development:

Heritage Tourism in and around the Pacific Rim

Preliminary Program Jan uary 15, 2007

Table of Contents

Table of Contents .

Introduction .

2007 Symposium Theme .

Program at a Glance .

Full Program Schedule .

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2007 Symposium Theme

The 2007 US/ICOMOS International Symposium focuses on heritage tourism, analyzing and discussing what different countries and venues have done in the past or are planning in the future to manage historic sites and to minimize threats posed by tourism. Larger issues of public policy and social benefit encompassing heritage tourism will be discussed. The symposium takes advantage of the geograpical position of host city San Francisco located at the eastern shore of the Pacific Ocean and focuses on heritage tourism along the Pacific Rim. The Pacific Rim countries, from North, Central, and South America to Australia and Asia, offer a variety of perspectives on this topic. From countries with homogenous societies and ancient heritage such as Japan to countries with diverse immigrant cultures such as Thailand, Peru, and the United States, there is shared interest in promoting heritage tourism and a shared concern over political and economic issues at stake.

Golden Gate Club, Presidio San Francisco, CA

The Golden Gate Club on the grounds of the Presidio will serve as the conference venue for all presentations and panel discussions for the 10th International Symposium. The Golden Gate Club, the Presidio's largest meeting facility, is situated in a forest grove overlooking the Golden Gate Bridge.

The Presidio was founded in 1776 as a Spanish Imperial outpost, was part of the Mexican frontier from 1822 to 1846, served as a U.S. Army post from 1846 to 1994, and today is a 1,491-acre national park, part of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area. The Presidio includes some 800 buildings and extensive cultivated forest and natural areas. Today, the Presidio Trust works to preserve and enhance the Presidio as an enduring resource for the American public.

The Golden Gate Club is located on Fisher Loop within the Presidio grounds, approximately a 20-minute walk from the Argonaut Hotel. Transportation (shuttle buses) will be provided between the Argonaut Hotel and the Golden Gate Club. For conference attendees NOT staying at or near the Argonaut Hotel, there is also a regularly scheduled Presidio Shuttle that runs between the Embarcadero BART station and the Presidio during weekday morning and evening commuting hours.

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Program at a Glance Symposium Schedule

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 18 Early arrivals and registration

4:00 pm - 9:00 pm (time not confirmed)

Registration open at the Argonaut Hotel (conference hote!) 425 Jefferson Street at Hyde

5:30 pm - 6:30 pm Welcome Reception

Herbst Theater, War Memorial Veterans Building, 401 Van Ness Avenue

6:30 - 8:00 prn Public Lecture

Herbst Theater, War Memorial Veterans Building, 401 Van Ness Avenue

8:00 pm - 10:00 pm

Young Professionals Evening Mix and Mingle

Crimson lounge, 689 McAllister Street (below Indigo Restaurant)

THURSDAY, APRIL 19

Presentations and Evening Reception

9:00 am - 12:30 pm

Welcoming Remarks and Keynote Presentation Presentation Session

Golden Gate Club, Presidio

12:30 pm - 2:00 pm

lunch and Scientific Committee meetings I Tour of the Presidio Golden Gate Club, Presidio

2:00 pm - 5:15 pm Presentation Sessions Golden Gate Club, Presidio

6:30 pm - 8:30 pm

Reception for Symposium Attendees

Chinese Historical Society of America Museum and learning Center, housed in the Chinatown YWCA (de~ signed by Julia Morgan), 965 Clay Street

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FRIDAY, APRIL 20

Field Tours, Mobile Workshops, and Evening Reception

All tours and workshops leave from the Argonaut Hotel at approximately 9:00 am. Tours and workshops will return to the Argonaut Hotel at approximately 5:00 pm, with the exception of the Adobe Tour which will end at 1 pm. Lunch will be provided for all tours and workshops.

• Tour 1: San Francisco Adobes (half day)

• Tour 2: Japantown and the Castro District

• Tour 3: Angel Island

• Tour 4: Marin County Landscapes

• Tour 5: Seacoast Fortifications

• Mobile Workshop 1: High Definition Documentation at Fort Scott

• Mobile Workshop 2: Vallejo and Mare Island Workshop

7:00 pm - 9:00 pm Reception and Silent Auction

On-board the Eureka, an 1890 steam ferryboat San Francisco Maritime National Historic Park Hyde Street Pier at Jefferson Street

SATURDAY, APRIL 21

8:00 am - 9:00 am US/ICOMOS Annual Meeting

The US/ICOMOS Annual Meeting is open to all US/ICOMOS members.

During the annual meeting, old and new business will be discussed, elections will be held for new members of the Board of Trustees, and the new Fellows will be introduced.

Golden Gate Club, Presidio

9:15 am - 12:30 am Presentation Session Golden Gate Club, Presidio

12:30 am -1 :30 pm

Lunch and Question and Answer at the Poster Session Golden Gate Club, Presidio

1 :45 pm - 5:30 pm

Presentation Session and Closing Plenary Session The Closing Plenary Session

Golden Gate Club, Presidio

6:30 pm - 8:00 pm

Farewell Reception at the Haas-Lilenthal House designed by Peter Schmidt

2007 Franklin Street (between Washington & Jackson)

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Full Program Schedule 2007 Symposium

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 18 Early arrivals and registration

4:00 pm - 9:00 pm (time not confirmed) Registration open at two locations:

- Argonaut Hotel (conference hotel), 425 Jefferson Street at Hyde

- Goldent Gate Club, the Presidio Trust (conference venue)

5:30 pm - 6:30 pm Welcome Reception

Herbst Theater Lobby, War Memorial Veterans Building 401 Van Ness Avenue at McAllister Street, San Francisco

6:30 - 8:00 pm Public Lecture

Herbst Theater, War Memorial Veterans Building

401 Van Ness Avenue at McAllister Street, San Francisco

8:00 pm - 10:00 pm

Young Professionals Evening Mix and Mingle

Crimson Lounge, 689 McAllister Street (below Indigo Restaurant) Hosted by the US/ICOMOS International Exchange Program Interns

After the lecture, students and young professionals can mix and mingle with past interns from the US/ICOMOS International Exchange Program in a lounge atmosphere with plush seating and OJ grooves. Light fare will be provided with a cash bar available. Open to all conference participants.

THURSDAY, APRIL 19

Presentation Sessions and Evening Reception

9:00 am - 10:30 am

Welcoming Remarks and Keynote Presentation Golden Gate Club, Presidio

10:30 am -10:45 am Break

10:45 am -12:30 pm Presentation Session #1 Goldent Gate Club, Presidio

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12:30 pm - 2:00 pm

Lunch and Scientific Committee meetings / Tour of the Presidio Golden Gate Club, Presidio

2:00 pm - 3:30 pm Presentation Session #2 Golden Gate Club, Presidio

3:30 pm - 3:45 pm Break

3:45 pm - 5:15 pm Presentation Session #3 Golden Gate Club, Presidio

5:45 pm - 6:15 pm Board Buses for YWCA

6:30 pm - 8:30 pm

Reception at the headquarters of the Chinese Historical Society of America Chinatown YWCA

965 Clay Street, San Francisco

Designed in 1932 by Architect Julia Morgan

Join us for an evening of Dim Sum and Chinese fare at the Chinatown YWCA building, built in 1932. The building is a magnificent architectural landmark designed by Julia Morgan, who designed hundreds of buildings from Hearst Castle to private homes. The YWCA consists of a multi-tiered structure punctuated with three Chinese towers. Details include Chinese roof tiles, decorative wall panels, a cast-stone arch with leaded glazing, and a circular cast-stone window with steel sash. A traditional Chinese courtyard, graced with a garden and fountain, is shared with the adjacent YWCA Residence Apartments. All exhibits of the Chinese Historical Society of America will be open for participants to explore. Welcome remarks will be delivered by Joe D'Alessandro of the SF Convention and Visitors Bureau.

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FRIDAY, APRIL 20

Field Tours and Mobile Workshops

All tours and workshops leave from the Argonaut Hotel at approximately 9:00 am. Tours and workshops will return to the Argonaut Hotel at approximately 5:00 pm, with the exception of the Adobe Tour which will end at 1 pm. Lunch will be provided for all tours and mobile workshops.

Tour 1: San Francisco Adobes (half day) (Capacity: 40 people)

Led by: Eric Blind, Archeologist, The Presidio Trust and Tony Crosby, Architectural Conservation LLC and Chair of the US ICOMOS Earthen Architecture Committee

In the city of San Francisco, two Spanish Colonial era adobe structures provide a vantage from which to explore how some buildings endure centuries of development in spite of the surrounding change and some adapt to that change and survive because of it. The first building is Mission San Francisco de Asis, commonly known as Mission Dolores. Construction was completed in 1791. After the instaliation of the final baroque altar side pieces in 1810, little else has changed. Mission Dolores is the oldest intact building in San Francisco and the oldest mission chapel of the original 21 chapels. In contrast, the tour will visit EI Presidio de San Francisco, an unassuming adobe structure in the Presidio known as the Officers' Club. The construction date of the original adobe structure is still unconfirmed. The original adobe walis remain standing below layer upon layer of US Army adaptive reuse - from Officers' Quarters, Laundresses Quarters, Army Headquarters, Officers' Club to its current use as National Park Service Visitor Center and events venue. Portions of the adobe walls have been uncovered on the interior of the Mesa Room and present a unique opportunity to view one of the first structures in the Presidio. Participants will take private transportation to the sites where they wi!! be given special tours of the buildings.

Tour 2: Ethnic Sexual Minority Issues: Japantown and the Castro District (Capacity: 40 people)

Led by: Gerald Takano, Architect TBA West

While the city of San Francisco prides itself with diverse and stable communities, many of its distinctively unique neighborhoods are facing new transitions and drastic changes. These places reflect a current need to balance economic and social success with the preservation of its primary identity, shared spaces, landmarks, and setting. Two communities wi!1 be explored: Japantown and the Castro district.

This walking tour will begin in San Francisco's "J'town", one of the three major surviving Japantowns in the USA. Although the neighborhood has endured forced internment of its residents during World War II and the demolition of its buildings from Urban Renewal of the 1960s, the area's cultural and

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social base still exists. However, changes in land ownership and uses, high land values, and other concerns may impact the integrity of the community. Participants will visit historical sites such as the Kinmon Gakuen, a processing center for persons of Japanese ancestry during World War II, the Julia Moran designed Little Friends Building, site of a major legal battle to retain community ownership, as well as the modernist idealism of Urban Renewal's malls and large complexes.

The tour will continue to the Castro District, a former working class Italian neighborhood, that has become the international center and symbol for the gay-Iesbian-bisexual-transgender (GLBT) community since the 1970s. Locations such as the original Harvey Milk camera shop (first openly gay supervisor of San Francisco), site of the AIDS Quilt origins, the Castro Theater, public art, and GLBT shops and creative places will be addressed.

Both the Castro and Japantown provide a basis for comparative analysis of neighborhoods that were once stigmatized historically, but have since prospered and now face new contemporary cultural preservation issues. Participants wi!! take private transportation to neighborhoods where they will be given walking tours.

Tour 3: Angel Island Tour (Capacity: 40 people)

Led by: Daniel Quan, Daniel Quan Design and Greg Jennings, California State Parks

Sponsored by the Angel Island Immigration Station Foundation and the California State Parks Marin District Angel Island State Park

Alcatraz may be the most recognized island in San Francisco Bay, but another is equally rich in history. Angel Island, located just off the Marin County coast, has a rich human history that is thousands of years old. Valued as a hunting and fishing site by Native Americans, then as ranchland by Spanish colonists, it was a strategic part of the coastal defense system from the Civil War through the Cold War. Angel Island was also the site of the primary Pacific Coast immigration station during the first half of the 20th century. Today, it is a California State Park that is open to the public year-round.

Join us on a tour of Angel Island where we visit different military sites around the island and then explore the former U.S. immigration station. There are over 400 military structures on the island dating back over 150 years, and a cultura! landscape that covers much of the island. We will examine feature structures and sites on our tour, and then go "behind the scenes" for a non-public look as well. Hear about the military history of the island and the challenge of dealing with as many buildings as are on this island.

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Our other major stop is at the immigration station, where we will show you the progress of the current Phase 1 restoration work, part of the major effort to restore and interpret this site. We will discuss the tangible and intangible values and attributes of this national historic landmark and discuss how elements of the master plan have been implemented.

Wear comfortable walking shoes and dress in layers. The weather on the island can be unpredictable. Although we will be transported via tram around the island, we will be walking on hilly but paved terrain at the various sites.

Angel Island is reached by ferry from either San Francisco or Tiburon in Marin County. The ferry ride on the bay offers spectacular views, and Angel Island has some of the best scenic overlook spots in the entire Bay Area.

Tour 4: Marin Cultural Landscapes Tour (Capacity: 40 people)

Led by: Dewey Livingston _ Historian and author of Point Reyes Peninsula, Bob Berner - Executive Director of Marin Agricultural Land Trust (MALT), Sally and Mike Gale - Owners, Chileno Valley Ranch, Gordon White - Chief of Cultural Resources - Point Reyes National Seashore, and Anne Murphy _ Owner, Home Ranch

http://www.malt.org/

http://www.chilenobnb.com/garden.htm I http://www.nps.gov/pore/historyculture/places_historiclandscapes.htm

Marin County, although known for its suburban and residential areas, is one of the Bay area's nine counties which also offers a perspective on the ranching and dairying rural areas of West Marin. This area has a long history of active ranching starting with the great ranchos in the 1830s when Marin was still part of Mexico and later when California became a state and the ranchos were subdivided into smaller ranches. Many of these ranches still flourish today largely in part because of the efforts of conservationists and progressive people who sought to stop development of the area. The Marin Agricultural Land Trust and the Point Reyes National Seashore offer two distinct systems that allow the continued operation of these historic and cultural landscapes and maintain the prevention of inappropriate development in the area.

Private transporation will bring participants to the Chileno Valley and Point Reyes area where they will have walking tours of both the Chileno Valley Ranch, a MALT member, and the Murphy Home Ranch, part of the Point Reyes National Seashore. Wear comfortable walking shoes appropriate for a rural setting and dress in layers. The weather in this area can be unpredictable.

MALT

Marin Agricultural Land Trust (MALT) was the first land trust in the United States to focus on farmland preservation. Founded in 1980 by a coalition of ranchers and environmentalists to preserve farmland in Marin

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County, California, MALT acquires agricultural conservation easements on farmland in voluntary transactions with landowners. MALT also encourages public policies that support and enhance agriculture. It is a model for agricultural land preservation efforts across the nation. MALT has so far permanently protected over 38,000 acres of land on 58 family farms and ranches. One of those family ranches is the Chileno Valley Ranch operated by Sally and Mike Gale.

Chileno Valley Ranch

The Chileno Valley Ranch is primarily a beef ranch where the beef is fed naturally, on grass (not corn), without antibiotics, hormones, or grain. About 600 acres of beautiful hilly coastal Marin grassland supports a herd of 100 Angus cows/calf pairs. Beef is sold directly to families, with no middleman. The animals are humanely raised and spend their whole lives on the Ranch. Additionally, great care is taken to protect and preserve the creeks, fish, birds,and native plants and animals on the Ranch.

Sally and Mike Gale have taken this once grand place that was neglected over a long period of time, and brought it back to life in every aspect. The house is once again a lovely homestead after a long rehabilitation carried out personally by the couple; the fences, barns and livestock are improving all the time; and the creek, once denuded of vegetation, now teems with birds and soon will be the spawning ground it once was for both steelhead and salmon. Their efforts have been recognized locally by preservation and conservation groups.

Point Reyes National Seashore

The National Seashore has identified twelve historic cultural landscapes within its boundaries and the north district of Golden Gate National Recreation Area administered by Point Reyes. Overtime, each is being documented, evaluated and where necessary rehabilitated, following guidelines of the National Register of Historic Places.

The dairy and cattle ranches on Point Reyes peninsula represent the single largest cultural landscape. Landscapes can range in scale from historic sites to substantial districts. They may express a high level of design or conversely, there are vernacular, or homespun landscapes developed out of need or desire over time, rather than arising from measured designs. In the absence of archived documents of written histories, ethnographic landscapes are dependent on oral histories and material artifacts to piece together an understanding a cultural groups heritage. Examples at Point Reyes include the inhabitation and resource collection and processing sites for the Coast Miwok in historic and prehistoric time, and the I.D.E.S. Hall of the Portuguese ranching community that once stood on "N" Ranch.

The Point Reyes Ranches Historic District contains over 22,000 acres on the coastal plain, highlighting the origin of ranching in west Marin, and emphasizing the history of the Shafter / Howard dairy enterprise (1857- 1939), also known as the "alphabet ranches", and its contribution to the development of industrial-scale dairy in California. Many of the existing ranches are operated by descendents of the early Point Reyes dairies.

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Murphy Ranch (Home Ranch)

located in a small valley above Drakes Estero, Home Ranch was the centerpiece of the pioneer Shafter family dairy empire and is today the oldest ranch on the Point Reyes peninsula (now part of the Point Reyes National Seashore). In part because of the social and political stature of the Shafter family contemporary writers noted its important function as the agricultural and stock-breeding experiment station for the Shafter holdings. In the 1880s the ranch was leased to Manuel DeFraga, one of many Azoreans immigrants who worked in the California dairy industry. By the 1920s however, the dairy ranch had declined. Since then the property has been used for vegetable, sheep, pig, and cattle operations by the Murphy family.

The current buildings date from primarily two periods: the Shafter family (1857-1885) and the Murphy family (1929 to the present). These include the Shafter ranch house which was reportedly built in 1857, an 1865 dairy house, a circa 1880 hay barn and a circa 1857 horse barn. The ranch represents both the earliest remaining buildings within the Point Reyes National Seashore and the formative role of the Shafter family.

Tour 5: Seacoast Fortifications

(Capacity: 40 people)

led by: John Martini, Historian and Author of Fort Point: Sentry at the Golden Gate; Fortress Alcatraz; The Official Guide to the Presidio of San Francisco; and Alcatraz At War.

The seacoast fortifications of Golden Gate National Recreation Area (GGNRA) are widely acknowledged to comprise the finest outdoor museum of coast defense structures in the country. They range in age from Fort Point (1861) to Nike Site SF-88l (1954). Construction types include intricate brick casemates, extensive earthworks, massive solid-pour concrete, and reinforced concrete subterranean structures. As a group, these fortifications possess relatively high integrity; represent a unique spectrum of military engineering techniques used by the United States in its seacoast fortifications from the Civil War through the Cold War; and are associated with important historical developments of the nation as an evolving international military power. This bus tour will tour many sites in both San Francisco and out to the Marin headlands over the Golden Gate Bridge.

Sites visited will include the following:

Fort Point _ A classic 19th century brick fort building in 1850s to protect San Francisco Bay in the aftermath of the Gold Rush. Spectacular views of the Golden Gate Bridge

http://www.nps.gov/fopo/

Fort Winfield Scott batteries _ A collection of 1890s concrete gun emplacements adjacent to the Golden Gate Bridge toll plaza. These are some of the earliest cast-concrete fortifications built in the United States, and have recently undergone extensive landscape clearing and other preservation work to protect their historic setting.

http://www.nps.gov/archive/prsf/coast_defense/harbor_defense_sf/fort_scott/index.htm

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Cavallo Battery, Fort Baker - A 'transitional' 1870s battery built on the Marin shore near the Golden Gate Bridge. This is the best-preserved example of an earthwork gun battery in the country, and has many interesting architectural and construction features.

http://www.militarymuseum.org/BtyCavallo.html

Battery Townsley, Fort Cronkhite - Constructed on the eve of World War II, Battery Townsley mounted two massive 16-inch caliber battleship guns in underground, camouflaged gun emplacements. The two guns were connected by a labyrinth of underground power rooms, living spaces, and ammunition magazines. http://www.cr.nps.gov/nr/travel/wwllbayarea/seacoastdefense.htm

Nike Missile Site SF-88 - The only preserved Cold War-era missile site in the country. Active from 1955 to 1974, this launch site once held up to a dozen nuclear-armed Nike-Hercules missiles. The battery has been restored it its appearance c1962. http://www.nps.gov/archive/goga/nikel

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Mobile Workshop 1: High Definition Documentation for Heritage Management & Tourism - Fort Scott (Capacity: 20 people)

Led by:

Michael Ashley, Ph.D. Archaeology, UC Berkeley, Manager of New Program Development for the Office of the CIO at UC Berkeley

Elizabeth Lee, Program Manager for the Center of Digital Scholarship at UC Berkeley

Sponsored by CyArk 3D Heritage Archive, the Presidio Trust, and University of California at Berkeley

This one-day workshop will provide participants with hands-on training in high-definition documentation (HOD) for cultural heritage, with the intention of producing digital content that is also useful for public interpretation and tourism. Multiple technologies and methods will be shown and discussed, demonstrated and instructed, including panoramic photography, high-dynamic range photography (HDR), 3D laser scanning (HDS), video and website management.

Who should attend and why: Participants interested in heritage management, documentation, cultural tourism, architecture and training will all benefit from this workshop. Participants will learn real-world techniques for creating rich media content that will appeal to the public and generate interest for their heritage sites. Many of the methods and principles introduced in this workshop are replicable with low-technological solutions and for a variety of budgets. No previous experience is necessary.

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Workshop Plan: This workshop will take a holistic approach to comprehensive workflows that integrate best practices of standards in digital preservation with the diverse standards of practice for documenting cultural heritage sites. The aims of the workshop are to demystify some of the methods used in HOD and help the participants of the workshop identify useful techniques for heritage documentation. The participants will receive training in the use of these technologies as well as a better understanding about the kinds of final products these techniques can produce.

Perhaps most importantly, the workshop products will be used in a new UC Berkeley I Presidio course to be taught in Summer Session 2007 on site stewardship and management, as well as in the ongoing CyArk internship program. The intention is to help create content, recommendations and documentation that will benefit the Presidio Trust with their mission to protect and develop this important heritage site.

The workshop will begin in the Presidio Officer's Club with a presentation about the history of HOD and its relevance to heritage management, HABS standards and cultural tourism. After this introduction to HOD, the workshop will travel through the Presidio to Fort Scott and engage in hands-on documentation of the historic fort. Participants will learn how to record, process and manage HOD data to produce useful tools for both site management and heritage tourism.

For more information, please see our website: http://cyark.berkeley.edu/2007/workshops or contact, mashley@berkeley.edu.

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Mobile Workshop 2: Vallejo and Mare Island Workshop (No Capacity Limit)

Led by: Judy Irvin, Historical Architect, Vallejo Architectural Heritage Foundation Elizabeth Pidgeon, AlA, Historical Architect, Vallejo Architectural Heritage Foundation Sponsored by: Vallejo Architectural Heritage Foundation, City of Vallejo,

Vallejo Naval and Historical Museum, Mare Island Historic Park Foundation, and Triad Communities

On California's vast, navigable inland waterway, protected by the Coastal Fortifications around the Golden Gate, lie the critical military and industrial functions that have long supported American interests around the Pacific Rim. Among these is the gigantic Mare Island Naval Shipyard (MINSY), located on the Napa River Straits just across from the City of Vallejo, the first official capitol of California. Established in 1852 just after California became a part of the United States, MINSY began immediately to build a strong Pacific Fleet and repair commercial maritime shipping vessels. With a civilian workforce that grew to over 40,000 people during World War II, Vallejo became inextricably linked to the shipyard. So when the shipyard was closed in 1996, desperate efforts to restart Vallejo's economic engine focused on restoring the heavy industrial jobs using "Redevelopment" strategies that rely on demolition and new construction. Despite Vallejo's prime geographic location, many positive attributes and Mare Island's recognition both as a National Register District and a National Historic Landmark, Vallejo's image as a gritty, navy town has limited investment and vision. The Vallejo and Mare Island Workshop is an opportunity to raise consciousness about Mare Island's global importance and help inform new, economic strategies for the City of Vallejo based on Heritage Tourism that will help the City build a new image and a strong economy.

Departing from the San Francisco Ferry Building on Vallejo's Baylink ferry, we will pass a number of important historic sites including Alcatraz and the Angel Island Immigration Station. We will follow history's long line of ships into the Napa River viewing Mare Island's key functions along the way. At Vallejo's ferry terminal we

will board busses for a brief tour of Vallejo's downtown and Mare Island before breaking into Focus Groups. We will regroup for lunch at the Vallejo Naval and Historical Museum. Alan Rosenus, author of "General Vallejo and the Advent of the Americans" will provide an overview of the pivotal 20 year period just before California Statehood. Jim Kern, the Museum's Director of the Vallejo Naval and Historical Museum and author of "Vallejo", will explain the Shipyard's importance and the City's evolution. After lunch, we will discuss our observations and explore strengths, weaknesses and opportunities before returning to the ferry for a relaxing glass of wine on the return trip to San Francisco.

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Focus Groups

#1: Heritage Tourism: Developing a new Economic Strategy

Leaders: Phil Kohlmetz, Director, Western Railway Museum, Suisun, Robbyn Jackson, Chief of Cultural Resources and Museum Management, San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park

Focussing on Mare Island's Historic Core, this walking tour will visit Mare Island Historic Park Foundation's buildings including Drydock #1 (begun in 1870), the Smithery (1856), the Commandant's Quarters and Saint Peter's Chapel (1901). Proposals for historic ships, reuse of the historic shipyard and the historic transportation links between world-famous tourist destinations such as San Francisco and the Napa Valley will be discussed. At Saint Peter's, the group will learn about the work needed to protect the Chapel's irreplaceable collection of Tiffany windows. We will explore how Mare Island evolved over time in response to operational requirements and review the Lennar Mare Island Specific Plan for demolition, reuse and new construction.

#2: Adaptive Reuse of the Mare Island Naval Hospital

Leaders: Chris Naughton, AlA, Architect, SmithGroup and Richard Hassel, Vice President of Administration Touro University

The Naval Hospital is a vast complex of buildings sited on a serene hillside away from the hustle and bustle of the shipyard and now owned by Touro University. This workshop will tour the Classical Revival building (NHL) rebuilt in 1899 on the foundations of an earlier building destroyed by an earthquake in 1896. Flanked by buildings from 1926 and 1941, it serves as a centerpiece for this huge complex that is unified by scale, massing, materials and design. Although Touro University has successfully rehabilitated several other buildings, the hospital complex remains vacant and unused because the narrow proportions of the wards require modification for current program uses. Touro University's dedication to the cutting edge of medical technology and proposals for a new University Village and medical research and development on the northern part of the Island will be discussed followed by a tour of portions of the vacant hospital. Appropriate shoes are required.

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#3: Mare Island Cultural Landscapes: Using a Cultural Landscape approach to inform park planning, development and maintenance of the Naval Ammunitions Depot (NHL)

Facilitator: Craig Whittom, Economic Development Director, City of Vallejo

To protect the vital heart of the shipyard, munitions were offloaded before ships could enter the Napa River Straits. The natural topography was utilized by the Navy planners to provide blast protection for the critical functions of the shipyard. This bus tour will stop at key historic resources within the NHL such as the first munitions magazine, watchmen's houses and the cemetery. We will pass natural California landscapes punctuated with historic Eucalyptus groves slowly taking over the neat rows of World War II soft top bunkers arranged along rail spines near Civil War quays. The NAD has not yet been transferred by the Navy because of cleanup issues and the historic NHL buildings and structures remain abandoned and deteriorating. The Base Closure Master Plan called for the entire area to be set aside for a Regional Park but there is no public entity willing and able to accept it. We will discuss strategies for creating a Master Plan using a Cultural Landscape approach that will include mechanisms for park management, development and maintenance.

#4: Historic Vallejo: Breathing life back into the urban center Leader: Diana Lang

Walking through the downtown and nearby Saint Vincent's Hill Historic District, we will reflect on historic changes to the physical, social and natural environments. Vallejo was a thriving regional commercial center up to the late 1950's. But the suburban shift after World War II eroded the vitality of the historic neighborhoods and the commercial center. Redevelopment efforts during the 1960's resulted in widened streets, parking lots and subsidized housing in an increasingly less vital urban center. The 1996 closure of Mare Island worsened conditions. As the community faltered, vacant buildings abounded and the once thriving local businesses closed down leaving an incomplete community without entrepreneurial support. Property values plummeted for residents and businesses alike as government relocation policies flooded an already soft market with undervalued homes and financing became difficult. As bargains abounded creative people and developers began moving in to rehabilitate historic buildings and changing the political climate. This session will take a look at current efforts to create a prosperous, livable, safe, walkable downtown. We will discuss Triad Communities new Specific Plan and proposed new mixed-use buildings, visit several rehabilitation projects including the landmark Empress Theater and meet with small and large developers to explore ways to make things happen.

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7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Evening Reception and Silent Auction - On-board the Eureka San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park

Hyde Street Pier, San Francisco

Sponsored by Global Heritage Fund

Step back in time for an evening on board the Eureka, built in 1890, originally designed as a freight-car ferry delivering trains from Sausalito to San Francisco under the name Ukiah. Re-christened as Eureka in 1923, she served as a passenger and automobile ferry. It is in that form which she maintains today. Jazz tunes will accompany the evening's silent auction event.

http://www.nps.gov/archive/safr/local/eureka.html

SATURDAY, APRIL 21

8:00 am - 9:00 am US/ICOMOS Annual Meeting

9:00 am - 9:15 am Break

9:15 am - 10:00 am Presentation Session #4 Golden Gate Club, Presidio

10:00 am -10:15 am Break

10:15 am -12:30 pm

Presentation Session #4, continued Golden Gate Club, Presidio

12:30 pm -1 :30 pm Lunch

Poster Session Questions & Answers

1 :45 pm - 3:30 pm Presentation Session #5 Golden Gate Club, Presidio

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SATURDAY, APRIL 21 continued ...

3:30 pm - 3:45 pm Break

3:45 pm - 5:30 pm Final Wrap-up Session

6:30 pm - 8:00 pm

Farewell Reception - The Haas-Lilienthal House Constructed in 1886 by Architect Peter Schmidt

2007 Franklin Street, (between Washington & Jackson), San Francisco Sponsored by San Francisco Architectural Heritage and the US/ICOMOS International Exchange Program in recognition of the upcoming 2008 25th anniversary of the program.

As featured on A&E's America's Castles' "Castles by the Bay," this exuberant Queen Anne-style Victorian was built in 1886. It is the only intact private home of the period that is open regularly as a museum, complete with authentic furniture and artifacts. The House has elaborate wooden gables, a circular corner tower and luxuriant ornamentation. At this farewell reception, volunteer docents will be available for questions throughout the House and explain the Victorian architecture of the exterior. A display of photographs in the downstairs supper-room describes the history of the home and the family that lived here until 1972.

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