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Wilbanks, Megan
From:Leveille, Brian
Sent:Friday, September 25, 2020 5:39 PM
To:CityClerk
Cc:Cohen, Rachel
Subject:FW: Letter of support for 1789 SB Mils Act to CHC
Attachments:1789 SB mills act support.docx
Please post as agenda correspondence. Thanks!
From: James Papp <
Sent: Friday, September 25, 2020 5:02 PM
To: Leveille, Brian <bleveill@slocity.org>; Oetzell, Walter <woetzell@slocity.org>; Michael Hughes
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Subject: Letter of support for 1789 SB Mils Act to CHC
Brian, please forward to CHC members. Thanks!
James
James Papp, PhD
Historian & Architectural Historian
805-470-0983
Historicities, LLC
Sauer-Adams Adobe
964 Chorro Street
San Luis Obispo, CA 93401
1
25 September 2020
Dear Members of the Cultural Heritage Committee,
As author of the Master List application for the Lozelle and Katie Flickinger Graham House, I
wanted to add a letter of support for the thoughtful Mills Act application, especially as some of you
have joined the committee since the Master List approval. Mills Act, named for the late State
Senator Jim Mills but passed as a referendum by the people of California, recognizes the expense
of maintaining a historic resource, hence maintenance and restoration of both historic and
nonhistoric elements (such as plumbing) are covered.
Reconstruction of the roof cresting (not on the building originally but added during the period of
significance) is exciting to me, as little roof cresting still exists in San Luis Obispo (in wood on the
Shipsey House, cast iron on the Biddle House, copper(?) on the Johnson Block). The picket
fence is in the earliest pictures from 1897 and remains during the period of significance.
Though the early landscaping does not appear to follow a particular style (such as Gardenesque),
we do know what it looked like (below, 1907), and restoring it to improve the visibility and
presentation of the house as a historic house is appropriate to the scope of the Mills Act.
Sincerely,
James Papp
Graham House, 1907 (above); 1892 (below)