Northern California Chapter of the Historic American Landscapes Survey (HALS)
We promote the documentation, preservation, and enjoyment of historic landscapes in California.
Landscapes
INVENTORY LIST
This inventory list is a searchable spreadsheet of documented sites and potential candidates for HALS documentation in northern California. You can search by name, city, county, and other criteria.
This list of potential sites was compiled by volunteers in 2004. The list needs to be updated regularly (at least once a year) to indicate what sites have had documentation completed.
We welcome your input. If you can document a landscape in northern California, please download the HALS Short Format History guidelines, brochure, and template. To avoid duplication of effort, please tell us which landscape you will be documenting before you start documenting it. Please email Chris Patillo, FASLA, the site you would like to document.
DOCUMENTING SITES FOR LEVELS I TO IV
HALS documentation levels are as follows:
LEVEL I: large-format photographs, long-format report, measured drawings
LEVEL II: large-format photographs, long-format report, original drawings
LEVEL III+: large-format photographs, short-format report, measured drawing
LEVEL III: large-format photographs, short-format report
LEVEL III-: large-format photographs
LEVEL IV+: short-format report, measured drawing
LEVEL IV: short-format report
For greater detail on levels, please see https://www.nps.gov/hdp/standards/index.htm
VIEW EACH COUNTY’S DOCUMENTED SITES BY EXPANDING THE PLUS SIGN
- IV Alivso Salt Works
- IV Berkeley Women’s City Club
- IV California Nursery Company
- IV Cargill Salt Flats
- IV Centerville Pioneer Cemetery
- IV Children’s Fairyland
- IV Cohen-Bray Garden (In Progress)
- IV Concannon Winery
- IV Defremery Park
- IV Dunsmuir Estate
- I Fleming Garden
- IV Greenwood Common
- IV Highland Hospital
- III+ Kaiser Center
- IV McConaghy Estate
- IV Meek Mansion
- IV Meyers Garden
- IV Mills Hall
- IV Mission San José de Guadalupe
- IV Mountain View Cemetery
- IV Oakland Municipal Rose Garden
- III Oakland Museum of California
- IV Palmdale Estates
- I Piedmont Way
- IV Rancho Higuera
- IV Ravenswood Estate
- IV Shibata Japanese Garden
- IV Shinn Arboretum
- IV Temescal Waterfall
- IV Chaw’se (Indian Grinding Rock SHP – In Progress)
- IV Daffodil Hill (In Progress)
- IV Bidwell Mansion (Bidwell Mansion SHP)
- IV Bidwell Park
- IV Alvarado Park
- IV John Muir House (NHL, NHS)
- I Oishi Nursery
- IV Potters Field at Alhambra Cemetery
- IV Rodoni Property
- I Sakai Nursery
- IV Soldiers Memorial Monument
- IV Old 49 Road Tree
- IV Elysian Park — Victory Memorial Grove
- IV Griffith Park Zoo
- IV Martin Luther King, Jr Medical Center Campus
- IV Mathias Botanic Garden
- IV Mission San Fernando Rey de España
- IV Mission San Gabriel Arcángel
- IV Ocean View Farms
- IV+ Rancho Los Alamitos
- IV Sunset Strip
- IV Union Bank of California Plaza
- IV Wattles Farm
- IV Wilshire Ebell Theatre Garden
- IV Wassama Village (Wassama Roundhouse SHP)
- IV Boyd Memorial Park
- I Burdell Garden (Olompali SHP)
- III China Camp (China Camp SP)
- IV Lytton Square
- IV Marin Art and Garden Center
- IV+ Marin General Hospital
- IV Mission San Rafael Arcángel
- IV+ Mountain Theater (Mount Tamalpais SP)
- IV Robson-Harrington Park
- I Camp Curry (Yosemite NP)
- IV Captain Fletcher’s Inn
- IV Ford House
- IV Mendocino Woodlands Demonstration Recreation Area (Mendocino Woodlands SP)
- IV Point Arena Cove
- IV Point Arena Light Station
- IV Point Cabrillo Light Station
- IV Sun House
- IV Casa Amesti
- IV Forest Theater
- IV La Mirada
- IV Mission Nuestra Señora de la Soledad
- IV Mission San Carlos Borremeo de Carmelo 9Carmel Mission NHL)
- IV Tor House
- IV Elmshaven
- IV Soda Springs Resort
- IV+ To-Kalon Vineyard
- IV Mansion Inn
- IV McKinley Park
- IV San Francisco Boulevard
- IV Sutter’s Fort (SHP, NHL)
- IV William Land Park, WPA Rock Garden
- IV+ Mission San Juan Bautista (San Juan Bautista SHP, San Juan Bautista Plaza NHL)
- IV Alcatraz Gardens (Golden Gate NRA, Alcatraz Island NHL)
- IV Alta Plaza
- I Aquatic Cove (San Francisco Maritime NHP, Aquatic Park Historic District NHL)
- IV Balboa Park Grotto
- IV Berrigan Garden (Fay Park)
- IV Church Garden
- I Doyle Drive Corridor
- IV Entrada Court Sundial
- III Golden Gate Park – Chalet Recreation Field
- III Golden Gate Park – Heroes Grove and Gold Star Mothers’ Memorial Boulder
- IV Golden Gate Park – Pershing and Doughboy Monuments
- IV Mission San Francisco de Asís
- I Parkmerced
- III+ San Francisco National Cemetery (Presidio of San Francisco NHL)
- IV University Mound Nursery
- I Gladwin Garden
- IV Mission La Purísima Concepción (La Purísima Mission SHP and NHL)
- IV Mission Santa Inés
- IV Mission Santa Cruz (Santa Cruz Mission SHP)
- IV Rancho del Oso (Big Basin Redwoods SP)
- IV Fischer-Hanlon Garden (Benicia Capitol SHP)
- IV Nut Tree
- IV Call Ranch (Fort Ross SHP)
- IV Fort Ross (Fort Ross SHP and NHL)
- IV Mission San Francisco Solano de Sonoma (Sonoma SHP)
- IV Oak Hill Park
- IV Pee Wee Golf
- IV Penry Park
- IV Pond Farm Pottery (Austin Creek SRA)
- IV Sonoma Developmental Center
- IV Sonoma TrainTown Railroad
- IV Walnut Park
- IV Wickersham Park
- IV Allensworth (Colonel Allensworth SHP)
The Chapter has approximately 100 members including arborists, community activists, enthusiasts, landscape architects, landscape historians, students, and writers. Membership is free. If you are seriously interested in historic landscapes, please join us and get involved.