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    • Board of Directors
    • Heritage Herald Newsletter >
      • Archived Newsletters
  • This Place Matters
    • Save The Depot >
      • Depot Historic Timeline
      • In the News
      • How You Can Help!
    • Boyd Gatehouse
    • TPM Archives >
      • Fire Station 51
  • Membership
  • Contact Us
  • By Laws
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  • Links to Preservation Organizations
  • Historic Preservation Events
  • SRH ARCHIVES

This Place Matters

This Place Matters is a program of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, which encourages preservation activists across the nation to seek out and celebrate the most beloved historic buildings in their communities.  San Rafael Heritage adopted the orange “This Place Matters” signs to wave at our chosen locations. We start holding one-hour demonstrations on a Friday in May, which is Historic Preservation Month, and we continue on one Friday a month throughout the summer. People passing by see our groups of signs and it makes them more aware of the rich legacy of historic buildings in their midst.
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Do you have a favorite historic location in San Rafael that you would like us to highlight?  Please email your suggestions to us at [email protected]!

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September 6th Demonstration at the Depot

2023 This Place Matters Demonstrations

May was Historic Preservation Month and the This Place Matters Septet 
played at San Rafael's Carnegie Library

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SRH's October, 2022
​This Place Matters Demo celebrated local history at Seawood Photo (left), who's been serving the photography community in Northern California  since 1947. 
​SRH board member Laura Ackley gets ready to sample the bread at
Bordenave’s French Bakery which celebrated 100 years of making sourdough in San Rafael. in 2018.
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