Casa Grande Carillon Rehabilitation
Summary
SCH Number
2020040381
Public Agency
California Department of Parks and Recreation
Document Title
Casa Grande Carillon Rehabilitation
Document Type
NOE - Notice of Exemption
Received
Posted
4/29/2020
Document Description
This project will rehabilitate and stabilize the 36 bells located in the towers of Hearst Castle's Casa Grande at Hearst San Simeon State Historical Monument to return the bells to their condition during the period of time when William Randolph Hearst resided at Casa Grande. Work will:
• repair or use in-kind materials to replace structural steel supports and bell crown
supports;
• repair or use in-kind materials to replace the wooden beams and decorative yokes above the bells;
• repair or replace the motor housings, motors, and playing mechanisms;
• restore the bronze surface of the bells; and
• reinstall the bells, structural supports, motors, housings, and playing mechanisms.
Contact Information
Name
Doug Barker
Agency Name
Parks and Recreation San Luis Obispo Coast District
Contact Types
Lead/Public Agency
Phone
Location
Counties
San Luis Obispo
Other Location Info
Hearst San Simeon State Historical Monument
Notice of Exemption
Exempt Status
Categorical Exemption
Type, Section or Code
Classes: 1, 31 Sections: 15301 , 15331
Reasons for Exemption
This project consists of the repair, maintenance or minor alteration of existing public or private structures and facilities involving negligible or no expansion of use beyond current levels and projects limited to the maintenance, repair, stabilization, rehabilitation, restoration, preservation, conservation or reconstruction of historical resources, in a manner consistent with the Secretary of Interior's Standards for the Treatment of Historic Properties with Guidelines for Preserving, Rehabilitating, Restoring, and Reconstructing Historic Buildings (1995), Weeks and Grimmer.
Attachments
Notice of Exemption
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