Tuesday, January 13, 2015

Downtown Hollister Historic District

 

Over the next few weeks, I will be posting photos of the buildings that are part of the Downtown Hollister Historic District, which encompasses San Benito Street and intersecting streets between Fourth Street and South Street.

In 1992, the Downtown Hollister Historic District was entered into the National Register of Historic Places, which is administered by the National Park Service.  The district was nominated by the California Office of Historic Preservation for its pre-World War II look and character of a small city's downtown area. At the time, 54 buildings, constructed between 1880 and 1942, contributed to the historic nature of Downtown Hollister. Unfortunately, several of the buildings on San Benito Street were destroyed during two arson fires a few years later.  The nomination papers also cited 29 noncontributing buildings in the district, of which some were constructed during the significant time period.


If you'd like to read the registration form that was submitted in 1992 to the National Register of Historic Places, please click here. The document provides a description of the Downtown Hollister Historic District.

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15 comments:

  1. Great building shots and post for OWT!

    Happy Week to you,
    artmusedog and carol

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  2. Your downtown looks a little like ours! I love seeing all the birds in the first shot.

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  3. Beautiful and clean little town. Thanks for the visit to my blog and Happy Week ahead.

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  4. People who try to preserve one historical building are awesome but when they try to stay true to the character of an entire town that is award-worthy!

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    1. Cool words, Penelope. A major earthquake and two arson fires have destroyed 3 half blocks. Hopefully, what's left of the historic buildings downtown will stay intact for a long while.

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  5. Interesting information and photographs.

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  6. From the roof top photo Hollister looks like like a pretty city and quite large! I hope more preservation is going on today--I love to see historic buildings saved.

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    1. Growing up in the late 50 to early 70s, I always thought of Hollister as being big, even though the population hovered around 7,000. We could buy nearly everything we needed in downtown. How that changed with the coming of shopping malls and big stores.

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  7. Great series of images from historic district.

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  8. oh, may I take this photo for a little post in my blog?
    thanks
    P.

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