Preservation Roundtable: The Multiple Property Submission

The topic for our third Roundtable is the "Multiple Property Submission," a time-saving tool for nominating an historic building or landscape to the National Register of Historic Places. With an MPS, properties can be nominated to the National Register if they fit the definitions of an already established historic context, allowing much simpler and shorter nomination forms. Examples of these contexts, developed by the State Office of Historic Preservation, include the Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in California, 1850 to 1970, and Native Americans and the California Mission System, 1769 to 1848.

Our featured speakers are Teresa Grimes and Flora Chou. Teresa is a historic preservation professional with over 30 years of experience and the co-author of five Multiple Property Submissions under which numerous properties have been listed on the National Register. Flora is an Associate Principal and Cultural Resources Planner in the Los Angeles office of Page & Turnbull. Flora leads the firm’s architectural history and preservation planning projects in Southern California.

Roundtables provide attendees the opportunity to connect with other preservationists from across Orange County and to learn how to advocate for historic and cultural resources in their communities.

The roundtable will start at 9 am with coffee and updates. Light refreshments will be served.

This event is free with registration and open to the public, but your membership allows us to continue offering programs like this.

About the location:
The Episcopal Church of the Messiah was designed by English-born architect, Ernest Coxhead (1863-1933), in 1889. Combining elements of Medieval Gothic, Classical, and late Queen Anne styles, it is considered by architectural historians David Gebhard and Robert Winter to be one of his most sophisticated early designs. It is also believed to be one of the oldest public buildings in continuous use in Orange County.