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Nonprofit with a mission to promote, preserve, and protect modern art, architecture, and design in the Sacramento region.

Inside a Northern California Modernist Tree House from 1963 | House Tour youtu.be/Vz_TFIvRVmQ?fe… First of several Open Spaces Series videos within the Sacramento area of amazing MCM homes! Congrats to former board members and friends of SacMod who participated in this series 📷

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Help us list the Sacramento Zoo Entrance, a local Googie style architectural icon designed by Rickey & Brooks, in the Sacramento Register! Send an email to @RickJenningsD7 & City Council via the link below, asking them to vote YES. #historicpreservation preservationsacramento.org/advocacy

PreservationSac's tweet image. Help us list the Sacramento Zoo Entrance, a local Googie style architectural icon designed by Rickey & Brooks, in the Sacramento Register! Send an  email to @RickJenningsD7 & City Council via the link below, asking them to vote YES. #historicpreservation
preservationsacramento.org/advocacy
PreservationSac's tweet image. Help us list the Sacramento Zoo Entrance, a local Googie style architectural icon designed by Rickey & Brooks, in the Sacramento Register! Send an  email to @RickJenningsD7 & City Council via the link below, asking them to vote YES. #historicpreservation
preservationsacramento.org/advocacy
PreservationSac's tweet image. Help us list the Sacramento Zoo Entrance, a local Googie style architectural icon designed by Rickey & Brooks, in the Sacramento Register! Send an  email to @RickJenningsD7 & City Council via the link below, asking them to vote YES. #historicpreservation
preservationsacramento.org/advocacy
PreservationSac's tweet image. Help us list the Sacramento Zoo Entrance, a local Googie style architectural icon designed by Rickey & Brooks, in the Sacramento Register! Send an  email to @RickJenningsD7 & City Council via the link below, asking them to vote YES. #historicpreservation
preservationsacramento.org/advocacy

Add your voice in support of landmarking the Sacramento Zoo entrance. Our friends at Preservation Sacramento have made it easy! preservationsacramento.org/advocacy This effort began 11+ years ago via a City-led survey. Stand with SacMod and the preservation community via the link!

SacMod's tweet image. Add your voice in support of landmarking the Sacramento Zoo entrance. Our friends at Preservation Sacramento have made it easy! preservationsacramento.org/advocacy
This effort began 11+ years ago via a City-led survey. Stand with SacMod and the preservation community via the link!

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May is Preservation Month! ohp.parks.ca.gov/preservationmo…

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Legit! Everyone knows three strikes = a Turkey! Vintage ad the Sacramento Bee, November 26, 1960

SacMod's tweet image. Legit! Everyone knows three strikes = a Turkey! Vintage ad the Sacramento Bee, November 26, 1960

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.@PreservationSac is hosting a virtual 2021 Historic #HomeTour. No matter where you are, you'll see the inside and out of four unique homes, including one of the few Sacramento Eichlers. bit.ly/3lEDMog

EichlerNetwork's tweet image. .@PreservationSac is hosting a virtual 2021 Historic #HomeTour. No matter where you are, you'll see the inside and out of four unique homes, including one of the few Sacramento Eichlers.  bit.ly/3lEDMog

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.@PreservationSac is hosting a virtual 2021 Historic #HomeTour. No matter where you are, you'll see the inside and out of four unique homes, including one of the few Sacramento Eichlers. bit.ly/3lEDMog

EichlerNetwork's tweet image. .@PreservationSac is hosting a virtual 2021 Historic #HomeTour. No matter where you are, you'll see the inside and out of four unique homes, including one of the few Sacramento Eichlers.  bit.ly/3lEDMog

Preservation Sacramento's Virtual Historic Home Tour happens October 24 & November 7, featuring video tours of 5 historic homes & adaptive reuse projects throughout the city. Tickets on sale now for $25, $20 for @PreservationSac & @SacMod members members. …rvation-sacramento-44.wildapricot.org/event-4492414

SacMod's tweet image. Preservation Sacramento's Virtual Historic Home Tour happens October 24 & November 7, featuring video tours of 5 historic homes & adaptive reuse projects throughout the city. Tickets on sale now for $25, $20 for @PreservationSac & @SacMod members
 members. …rvation-sacramento-44.wildapricot.org/event-4492414

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Preservation Sacramento's Virtual Historic Home Tour happens October 24 & November 7, featuring video tours of 5 historic homes & adaptive reuse projects throughout the city. Tickets on sale now for $25, $20 for @PreservationSac & @SacMod members members. …rvation-sacramento-44.wildapricot.org/event-4492414

PreservationSac's tweet image. Preservation Sacramento's Virtual Historic Home Tour happens October 24 & November 7, featuring video tours of 5 historic homes & adaptive reuse projects throughout the city. Tickets on sale now for $25, $20 for @PreservationSac & @SacMod members
 members.
…rvation-sacramento-44.wildapricot.org/event-4492414

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South Land Park residents also support preserving the historic buildings at the entrance to the Zoo. @SacMod


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SLPNA polled our membership in 2019 on the question of relocating the Zoo. Residents overwhelmingly supported the Zoo relocation, & strongly supported a comparable park amenity to replace the Zoo (eg, a Botanical Garden).

SoLandParkAssn's tweet image. SLPNA polled our membership in 2019 on the question of relocating the Zoo. Residents overwhelmingly supported the Zoo relocation, & strongly supported a comparable park amenity to replace the Zoo (eg, a Botanical Garden).

Meet the "Gateway to the Sacramento Zoo!” • 1961: Kenneth Charles Rickey, AIA and designer Fred E. Brooks. • 60 years old; "Googie" mid-20th century architectural style. • Three concrete shell hyperbolic paraboloids, designed with twisted geometric planes.

SacMod's tweet image. Meet the "Gateway to the Sacramento Zoo!”
• 1961: Kenneth Charles Rickey, AIA and designer Fred E. Brooks.
• 60 years old; "Googie" mid-20th century architectural style.
• Three concrete shell hyperbolic paraboloids, designed with twisted geometric planes.
SacMod's tweet image. Meet the "Gateway to the Sacramento Zoo!”
• 1961: Kenneth Charles Rickey, AIA and designer Fred E. Brooks.
• 60 years old; "Googie" mid-20th century architectural style.
• Three concrete shell hyperbolic paraboloids, designed with twisted geometric planes.
SacMod's tweet image. Meet the "Gateway to the Sacramento Zoo!”
• 1961: Kenneth Charles Rickey, AIA and designer Fred E. Brooks.
• 60 years old; "Googie" mid-20th century architectural style.
• Three concrete shell hyperbolic paraboloids, designed with twisted geometric planes.

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Cool event alert! On Sunday 8/29, Heather David, author of the books “Motel California” and “City by the Bay,” will be speaking live via Zoom about Northern California’s mid-century travel architecture. RSVP: eventbrite.com/e/motel-noca-w… @docomomo_us @EichlerNetwork


Sacramento's been lit for a really long time! We've been researching the history of illuminated signs in our city. Check out K & 8th Streets from 1915! Via @CAStateLibrary; McCurry Photograph Collection

SacMod's tweet image. Sacramento's been lit for a really long time! We've been researching the history of illuminated signs in our city. Check out K & 8th Streets from 1915!

Via @CAStateLibrary; McCurry Photograph Collection

Check it out!

Some great #modern options in @ca_preservation's annual auction. We're eyeing the Futuro House stay.... californiapreservation.org/auction

docomomo_us's tweet image. Some great #modern options in @ca_preservation's annual auction. We're eyeing the Futuro House stay.... californiapreservation.org/auction


Congratulations to everyone involved in the restoration of the historic SMUD HQ building!

The @archpaper has awarded SMUD HQ Rehabilitation project with a Best of Design Awards Honorable Mention in the Preservation & Restoration category! #dreyfussblackford #wedesignedthis #designawards #preservation #restoration #rehabilitation #smud #sacramento #architecture

DBarchitects's tweet image. The @archpaper has awarded SMUD HQ Rehabilitation project with a Best of Design Awards Honorable Mention in the Preservation & Restoration category! #dreyfussblackford #wedesignedthis #designawards #preservation #restoration #rehabilitation #smud #sacramento #architecture


Happy 100th Birthday to internationally renowned Sacramento artist Wayne Thiebaud! Check out these lesser known kinetic fountain collaborations from the early 50s. Source: Arts & Architecture; Nov. 1952 & Aug. 1953.

SacMod's tweet image. Happy 100th Birthday to internationally renowned Sacramento artist Wayne Thiebaud! Check out these lesser known kinetic fountain collaborations from the early 50s. Source: Arts & Architecture; Nov. 1952 & Aug. 1953.
SacMod's tweet image. Happy 100th Birthday to internationally renowned Sacramento artist Wayne Thiebaud! Check out these lesser known kinetic fountain collaborations from the early 50s. Source: Arts & Architecture; Nov. 1952 & Aug. 1953.
SacMod's tweet image. Happy 100th Birthday to internationally renowned Sacramento artist Wayne Thiebaud! Check out these lesser known kinetic fountain collaborations from the early 50s. Source: Arts & Architecture; Nov. 1952 & Aug. 1953.
SacMod's tweet image. Happy 100th Birthday to internationally renowned Sacramento artist Wayne Thiebaud! Check out these lesser known kinetic fountain collaborations from the early 50s. Source: Arts & Architecture; Nov. 1952 & Aug. 1953.

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A billion-dollar plan to demolish & rebuild the Capitol annex, add a visitors center & dig up part of Capitol Park for a private garage for legislators is at least partly ill-conceived and entirely ill-timed. Read our take & see the proposed designs here: bit.ly/3mqZqKc


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Deep Time: The Strange Life of an LA Googie: Johnie’s Coffee Shop. kcrw.co/3flAUGP

EichlerNetwork's tweet image. Deep Time: The Strange Life of an LA Googie: Johnie’s Coffee Shop. kcrw.co/3flAUGP

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As seen on @ArchDaily: Our @SMUD HQ Rehabilitation project! - with @roebbelen Contracting, Inc., and Wiss, Janney, Elstner Associates, Inc. archdaily.com/938014/sacrame… #SMUDHQ #Sacramento #architecture #dreyfussblackford #wedesignedthis #archdaily

DBarchitects's tweet image. As seen on @ArchDaily: Our @SMUD HQ Rehabilitation project! - with @roebbelen Contracting, Inc., and Wiss, Janney, Elstner Associates, Inc.

archdaily.com/938014/sacrame…

#SMUDHQ #Sacramento #architecture #dreyfussblackford #wedesignedthis #archdaily

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