AgdaPkt 2020-11-23 Joint SA PFA - Laserfiche WebLink

Browse Search

7.A. - Page 35 of 66 William Kostura, Historic Resource Evaluation for 970 Edgewood Road a 1982 ballot referendum that succeeded by a 42 -vote margin (out of nearly 18,000 votes that were cast). Ultimately, the Peninsula Open Space Trust's purchased the site in 1997. It is now part of the Don Edwards National Wildlife Refuge. As a member of the Friends of Edgewood Park, she helped to prevent this 467 -acre Redwood City Park and Nature Preserve from becoming an 18 -hole golf course. (The park was established mainly through a lawsuit by the California Native Plant Society on grounds of protecting sensitive natural habitat.) She helped get National Register of Historic Places listings for the Sanchez Adobe in Pacifica (built in 1842-1846) and the Woodside Store (built in 1854). She was "a major participant" in writing the historic preservation element of San Mateo County's Coastside General Plan. During 1967-1976 she chaired the County Scenic Roads Committee, which acquired State Scenic Highway designations for Skyline Boulevard, Highway 1 south of Half Moon Bay, and Interstate 280 south of South San Francisco. She was the president of the San Mateo County Historical Association during 1964-1966 and was a member of the San Mateo County Parks and Recreation Commission from 1983 to 1997. After Ray Spangler retired from publishing the Redwood City Tribune in 1969, Nita Spangler was able to return to reporting, part time, with the Woodside Country Almanac. Over the next eight years (1969-1977) she covered the issue of desegregation at the Sequoia Union High School District. Previously, she had been a member of Redwood City Citizens Against Racism. The architect, Edwin A. Wadsworth (1908-1999) The architect of the subject house was born in Colorado and moved with his family to San Diego as a child, then to Anaheim and Los Angeles. In Los Angeles during 1926-1928 he worked as a draftsman for the prominent firm of Walker and Eisen, which was then receiving important commissions for Art Deco theaters, the Beverly -Wilshire Hotel, the Oviatt Building, and the 310 -foot tall El Cortez Hotel in San Diego, among others. Wadsworth then gained a degree in architecture at the University of California (Berkeley) in 1931 or 1932. From 1934 to 1937 he worked for the architectural firm of Taylor and Taylor. He served in World War II as a Navy lieutenant by designing a jet propulsion ordinance plant in Maryland, and after the war returned to California, where he worked in Los Angeles and Santa Barbara. He then moved to San Mateo, where he helped to design 10 477