national register nomination for boulevard park historic

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Roberta Deering, senior planner of the Preservation Department of the City of
Sacramento, originally asked me to undertake this project. Her experience, guidance and
help during my internship and throughout this project were invaluable.
Members of the original Historic Boulevard Park Committee and Boulevard Park
Neighborhood Association helped me gather data and better utilize a collection of notes
and articles that began twenty years ago. Ed Cox, Jon Marshack, Marc de la Vergne,
Marilyn Starr, Raymond Cosentino, Margaret Buss, and Catherine Turrill shared their
insights, stories, documents, experiences, and enthusiasm for the neighborhood of
Boulevard Park.
Jay Correia, supervisor of the Registration Unit of California’s Office of Historic
Preservation, and Cynthia Toffelmier, Historian II, guided my education as a professional
historian and helped me apply theory into practice. The archives staff of the Center for
Sacramento History, under the leadership of archivist Patricia Johnson, provided
additional resources and documentation, as did Tom Tolley, librarian at the Sacramento
Room, Sacramento Central Library.
My faculty advisor, Prof. Lee Simpson, encouraged my return to the study of
history and directed me to works of urban history that provided the academic foundation
for this work. My second reader, Andrew Hope, lent his experience in residential surveys
with exhaustive and detailed reviews of early drafts.
Thanks to my wife Vivian for her encouragement, support and occasional
prodding to finish this project. I could ask for no better partner in this project or this life.
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