At the September 2025 meeting of the City of San Diego Historical Resources Board, the members designated five houses and approved a sixth as a Heritage Structure.
One of the houses is in Point Loma. (See photo above)
3030 Alcott Street in the Peninsula Community is named the Laura and Harold Conklin House, for the couple who built it as their residence in 1937, and is designated under HRB Criterion C for its Spanish Colonial Revival style architecture.
It retains integrity and embodies design elements of the style, including a low-pitched hipped roof with single barrel clay tile, wide eaves with exposed rafter tails, sand stucco siding with belt courses, wood-framed multi-light casement and fixed windows, wood-framed multi-light French doors, diamond pane casement windows, stucco grilles, an open second-story porch with wood posts and beams, battered wing walls, decorative corbels, and a stucco chimney.
Here are the others from around the city:
I have been researching and writing historical nomination reports in San Diego for the past twenty-five years, but in all that time I never heard the term “heritage structure” for a building too compromised in changes to qualify for Criterion C, architecture. There should be an explanation as to what that means to the City of San Diego, Historical Resources Board and the City of San Diego, Planning Department. Can this heritage structure be protected from future architectural change? Does the owner have the right to apply for a Mills Act contract? I have several clients eager to know the answer.