Praetzellis, Mary
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2024-03-28T13:02:58ZArchaeology, Hitstory and a Hoag House Mystery
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Archaeology, Hitstory and a Hoag House Mystery
Praetzellis, Mary; Praetzellis, Adrian
In January 1984, while the Hoag House
was still at its original location - up on
piers and ready to be moved Adrian
Praetzellis~ at the request of architect
Dan Peterson, excavated a trash-filled pit
beneath the structure. For a while, it
looked as if we had caught Obediah Hoag in
one of these contradictions between what
historical archaeologists call observed
behavior - Hoag as described by his - contemporaries and preserved behavior -
Hoag as reflected by his trash. This
article will present and resolve that
apparent contradiction and, in the
process, recount a good deal of Santa
Rosa's history.
1985-01-01T00:00:00ZThe Contents of Mrs. Menefee's Well
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The Contents of Mrs. Menefee's Well
Praetzellis, Mary
The Post Office building was moved to its present site to make
way for urban development. Before it was set down on the site,
an archaeological "dig" was performed . Herewith is the story
found on the land that the old building now sits. It is literally
the Old Post Office Story- from the ground up!
1984-01-01T00:00:00Z"Sunshine Corner": Archaeology and the Domestic Reform Movement in West Oakland, California
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"Sunshine Corner": Archaeology and the Domestic Reform Movement in West Oakland, California
Praetzellis, Adrian; Praetzellis, Mary; Woods, Aicha
Domestic reformers described West Oakland as a "district of great ugliness," "a law-abiding workingman's district settled chiefly by hard-working foreigners, with a sprinkling of Americans." From the mid-1880s, local women's clubs worked in West Oakland founding a community center that included a kitchen garden, kindergarten, boys' club, mothers' club, Salvage Bureau (or household goods recycling center), and a School of Domestic Science. This community center was surrounded by 39 blocks that will be developed for reconstruction of the earthquake-damaged Cypress Freeway. The archaeological research design for this project addresses a variety of issues that are relevant to this 19th-and early 20th-century working-class neighborhood, including Victorian ideology that was supplemented by the progressive ideas and social activism of the domestic reform movements. While the movements' goals and activities in West Oakland are well documented, only archaeology can provide indications of its success in translating progressive, modern values to the area's culturally diverse families.
1996-01-01T00:00:00ZFurther Tales of the Vasco
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Further Tales of the Vasco
Praetzellis, Mary; Praetzellis, Adrian
As the inlet pipe was ceremoniously opened, filling the long awaited reservoir for the very first time, the Vasco Adobe disappeared beneath the waters of the Los Vaqueros Reservoir. Built in the 1850s by a group of rough Basque cattle ranchers, the adobe had been the scene of tragedies, feuds, fights, failures, and betrayals. Its occupants made and lost fortunes for themselves, and for their lawyers. Only when the cascading series of lawsuits was settled was the adobe abandoned and its residents moved into a plain, wooden house. Melted by rain and buried by flood silts, the adobe remark ably survived the ownership of Oscar Starr, inventor of the Caterpillar tractor, who test-drove his bulldozers on the ranch. It also survived the tenure of gun-toting San Francisco socialite and party-girl, Edith Ordway, who buried her toothless pet raccoon next to the old building's remains. Archaeologists, historians, architects, and folklorists studied the Vasco Adobe so that its stories would not be lost beneath the waters of Los Vaqueros Reservoir.
1998-01-01T00:00:00Z