California in the 19th Century: The Architecture of Samuel and Joseph Cather Newsom, 1878-1907

FAIN: GM-11421-78

University of California, Santa Barbara (Santa Barbara, CA 93106-0001)
David Gebhard (Project Director: December 1978 to present)

To support an exhibition depicting the Newsom brothers' contributions to the development of the west coast environment. Individual building designs, land speculation, speculative housing, and new town designs are a few of the areas where architects (and especially the Newsoms) were involved in economic, social, and political aspects of late 19th century growth.