Profile

Vonn Marie is a landscape historian and cultural landscape specialist with over 25 years of project experience. Her advocacy and rigor reflects her historic preservation and legal research background.

Embracing the use of historic values in planning and design she has authored several successful local, state and National Register nominations which include historical landscapes and settings.

Vonn Marie has been recognized by the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA); American Planning Association (APA); American Institute of Architects (AIA); California Preservation Foundation (CPF); and the California State Governor’s Award for her project work in historic preservation and cultural landscapes.

1915 Botanical Building, Balboa Park

Publications and Awards

2014 CPF Preservation Design Award – Audrey Geisel House UCSD

2010 Images of America: Rancho Santa Fe, Arcadia Publishers

2010 Rancho Santa Fe Historical Society - Lifetime Membership Award

2009 ASLA National Honor Award – Celebrating the Cultural Landscape Heritage of Mills College

2009 SCUP National Honor Award – Celebrating the Cultural Landscape Heritage Mills College

2008 ASLA No.CA Chapter Honor Award – Celebrating the Cultural Landscape Heritage of Mills College

2005 CPF Design Award – UC Berkeley Landscape Heritage Plan

2005 CA Governors Preservation Award -- UC Berkeley Landscape Heritage Plan

2005 ASLA Northern California Merit Award – UC Berkeley Landscape Heritage Plan

2005 APA Focus Award - Rancho Santa Fe Cultural Landscape Amendment

2005 APA Focus Award – Uptown Cultural Landscape Survey

2005 SD Police Historical Assoc. Jose Cota Preservation Award – Preservation Advocacy

2004 SOHO Rural Preservation Award- Sikes Adobe Farmhouse & Grounds

2003 CPF President’s Award - Preservation Advocacy

2003 CPF Design Award – Sikes Adobe Farmhouse Cultural Landscape Report

2002 Orchid – ASLA Balboa Park Cultural Landscape Nomination

2001 The Journal of San Diego History Book Review, Balboa Park: A Millennium History

1996 AIA Merit Award & CPF Honor Award-SD - Mid City Historic Survey

1995 CA Governor’s Historic Preservation Award - St Francis Chapel, Warner Springs

1995 SOHO Early California History Award - St. Francis Chapel

1992-1998 S.D. Union-Tribune Sunday Home Section Features on California horticultural history

1991 APA Regional Planning Award-Mission San Luis Rey Landscape Master Plan

1991 The Landscape Journal, Fall U. of Illinois, Urbana-Book Review:Landscaping the American Dream:

The Gardens and Film Sets of Florence Yoch 1890-1972 by James J. Yoch

1990 San Diego Journal of History Spring.The Marston Garden:The Southwest Interprets English Romantic

Workshops & Symposia

California Preservation Foundation (CPF) & National Park Service (NPS): Cultural Landscapes Workshop, UC Berkeley Evaluating Integrity
SOHO: History of the Balboa Park Botanical Building
Congress of History: History of the Balboa Park Botanical Building
Mills College: Reading the Cultural Landscape of Mills College: Findings
from the Getty Campus Heritage Grant Project
CPF Annual Meeting: Cultural Landscape Track,The Salk Institute National
Register Project
CPF Workshop: Rancho Santa Fe: The Town the Railroad Built
Friends of SD Architecture: Rancho Santa Fe: The Town the Railroad Built
Friends of San Diego Architecture: Sikes Adobe Farmhouse Landcape
National Trust for Historic Preservation: NTC San Diego Base Closure
Women in Architecture: Native Impressions: San Diego's Ambivalent Pursuit of Regionalism
ASLA/NPS: Cultural Resource Planning Charette for Mission SLR. Host

Cultural Landscape Projects

UC San Diego Chancellor’s House, San Diego

Cultural Landscape Management Plan

Naval Training Center Officer’s Quarters Gardens

Cultural Landscape Documentation

Fern Dell, Griffith Park, Los Angeles

National Register Eligibility

Mills College, Oakland

Landscape Heritage Plan

Julian, CA County of San Diego

Historical Context and Survey

University of California Berkeley

Landscape Heritage Plan

Rosecroft Gardens Point Loma, San Diego

National Register of Historic Places

County Administration Center, San Diego

Cultural Landscape Analysis

Fort Rosecrans Coastal Defenses, San Diego

National Register Eligibility Report

San Diego Uptown Community District

Cultural Landscape Element