Eureka Heritage Society

Strategic Plan: Vision Statement, Goals, and Strategies

January 9, 2023 Plan Revised & Approved by Board of Directors March 10, 2025

Goal 1: Have the Annie B. Ryan House & Gardens (ABR) recognized within the community as an example of accomplished historic preservation.

Strategies:

• Create signs for ABR property explaining the history of the site.
• Prepare application for National Register of Historic Places and California Register of Historical Resources.
• Create an annual maintenance plan and obtain board approval of the plan each year by April 30.
• Continue working toward a completed preservation and restoration resource library.

Goal 2: Eureka Heritage Society will educate and excite the community about the importance of restoration and preservation.

Strategies:

• Be an ongoing resource to the community.
• Provide ongoing education to realtors and new vintage homeowners.
• Create a house museum.
• Put the list of CalTrans Covenant properties on the EHS website. COMPLETED
• Keep apprised of developments within the City of Eureka that would impact historic preservation.
• Provide samples of appropriate infill.
• Collaborate with other nonprofit and for-profit organizations and government entities to further historic preservation.
• Further develop effective communication.

Goal 3: We will seek to have a more diverse, active, and involved membership

Strategies:

• Work to increase membership annually.
• Increase member involvement as volunteers and participants in all activities.
• Explore membership incentives.