The City of Ventura Community Development Department is working with Historic Resources Group to develop a historic context statement and to complete a comprehensive historic resources survey. The survey will focus on properties over 40 years old that are not designated historic landmarks.
The preparation of a comprehensive Citywide Historic Context Statement is currently underway.
We are looking for feedback! Read the Draft Historic Context Statement and submit your comments here.
We welcome your input - at any time during the project, tell us about the stories and places that matter most to you. Help us tell Ventura’s story!
A historic context statement:
Places built resources in the appropriate historic, social, and architectural context so that the relationship between an area’s physical environment and its broader history can be established
Highlights trends and patterns critical to the understanding of the built environment
Serves as a guide to enable citizens, planners, and decision-makers to understand the built environment
Provides a framework for the development of a comprehensive historic preservation program
Provides a framework for the continuing process of identifying historic, architectural, and cultural resources in the city
Is not intended to be a comprehensive history of the City of Ventura
Identifies the various historical factors that shaped the development of the area, including:
Historic activities or events
Important people
Building types
Architectural styles
Patterns of physical development
Links with tangible built resources through the concept of “property type,” a grouping of individual properties based on shared physical or associative characteristics
For more information, see the Historic Context Statement Outline.
Draft Historic Context Statement coming soon!
Banner photo: Early Ventura Chinatown, 1890
Source: Black Gold Cooperative Library System