The Eureka Heritage Society's
Current Events:
The Annual Meeting
Saturday,
January 21st, 2012.
10AM -12 Noon
The Eureka Heritage Society
2012 EHS Annual Meeting.
Held this year at the SpeakEasy Bar, 411 Opera Alley (off F Street between 2nd and 3rd Streets) in Old Town, Eureka.
Click here for photos of the event!
Please call (707) 444-3314 for additional information.
The Holiday Luncheon
Saturday,
December 17th, 2011
(707) 444-3314 for additional information. Open only to members and their guests. Held this year at the Ingomar Club, with entertaiment by the Scotia Brass Band and a tour of the mansion led by Ron Kuhnel!
(a PDF image of the invitation is here:)
“Worth Looking Into”
A free, Year of the Window, special forum, was presented by the Eureka Heritage Society from 10 a.m. to noon on Saturday, Oct. 22, at the Eureka Woman’s Club, 1531 J St.
(Photos of the event are here)
The event explored which options are best for old houses: maintaining original windows, putting in modern replacements, or other alternatives.
Financial and environmental issues were debated by entrepreneurs and experts on both sides of this issue.
(Photos of the event are here)
The Heritage Society’s Year of the Window is an educational campaign to encourage owners of historical structures to repair and maintain their original windows. More information can be found at the website for
the National Trust for Historic Preservation:
weatherization/windows
The Annual Home Tour
Sunday,
October 2, 2011
Saturday, July 30th: The 2011 Summer Event!
Click the link above for more information and
HERE for PHOTOS!
The Eureka Heritage Society Participates in This Year's Rhododendron Parade!
April 30, 2011. A beautiful, sunny Saturday in Eureka, quite possibly the best Rhododendron Parade ever and your Eureka Heritage Society was fully represented. Click the above link for several photos of Muriel Dinsmore piloting the William Carson Carriage along H Street.
The Home Tour
Annually held the first Sunday in October, this year the date is set for October 2.An array of buildings from 1895 to 1962. More information about this year's tour, including the homes, businesses and buildings selected, will be posted as it becomes available.
Home Tour of 2010
A diverse collection of seven Eureka structures.
For more information and a look at photos from past Home Tours:
The Summer Event
July 30, 2011
This year's Summer Event was held at Eric and Viviana Hollenbeck's Blue Ox Millworks on the bay in Eureka at the foot of X Street.
Summer Event of 2009
Samoa, California
For more information and a look at photos from past Summer Events: The Annual Meeting
January 2011
At our annual meeting held Saturday, January 29th, at the Avalon Restaurant, our new slate of officers and directors were approved.
President Chuck Petty, Vice President Ron Kuhnel, Secretary Kathy Dillon, and Treasurer Mary Ann McCulloch will serve for one year; each term expires in 2012. Directors Jean Gladstone-Clark, Helen Hui, Kay Kaylor and Paul McNally
will each serve a three year term, which expires in 2014.
We are delighted to welcome Kathy Dillon to our board this year. A native of Chicago, Kathy Dillon has spent most of her life in California, graduating from San Francisco State University in 1977. In 1981, she became a feature writer for the Times-Standard and from 1983 to 2000 was the paper's lifestyle editor. Throughout her life in Eureka, she has developed a growing appreciation for historic architecture. As a result, Kathy began taking preservation classes at College of the Redwoods while starting Restore & Preserve, an award winning magazine about our historic architecture in the Times-Standard from 2002 through 2009. She is now editor of the Society's newest publicatiuon, Architectural Legacy.
Annual Meeting of 2009
Oberon Grill , 516 Second Street, Eureka
, Saturday, January 24th, 2009
For more information and a look at photos from past Annual Meetings:
Preservation Awards
May 2011
Preservation Awards 2010
The Eureka Woman’s Club, 1531 J Street, Saturday, May 1, 2010.
For more information and a look at photos from past Preservation Awards:
The Holiday Banquet
Upcoming in December 2011Holiday 2010
The Ingomar Club, Saturday, December, 2010.
For more information and a look at photos from past Holiday Events: