Jeremy D. and John K. Hass Papers MS-06

Presidio Research Center
215 East Canon Perdido St.
Santa Barbara, CA 93101
chris@sbthp.org


Language of Material: English
Contributing Institution: Presidio Research Center
Title: Jeremy D. and John K. Hass Papers
creator: Hass, Jeremy D., 1936-2014
creator: Hass, John K.
Identifier/Call Number: MS-06
Physical Description: 6 boxes
Date (inclusive): 1853-1990
Date (bulk): 1958-1987
Abstract: This collection documents the early activities of the Santa Barbara Trust for Historic Preservation in partnership with California State Parks to reconstruct El Presidio de Santa Barbara. It includes correspondence, research materials and legal documents about property acquisition and management on land where the former presidio stood. It also includes administrative materials, such as minutes, correspondence, and policies collected by board members Jeremy D. Hass and his father John K. Hass, who were active on the board from 1970-1986.

Scope and Contents

A significant portion of this collection was created by Jeremy Hass and represents various activities he undertook for the Santa Barbara Trust for Historic Preservation (SBTHP). A smaller portion of the collection was created by his father John K. Hass, when he was on the Board of Directors of SBTHP.

Biographical / Historical

Jeremy Dennis Hass was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on March 24, 1936 and spent his early years in St. Paul, Minnesota, before his family moved west. He attended Pomona College where he majored in economics-engineering, with a minor in history, before going on to Hastings College of Law in San Francisco, and Loyola University in Los Angeles. He was admitted to the California State Bar and joined the family law firm Weldon and Hass. Jeremy retired from the firm in 2001.
In the mid-1960s, while working for Jules Brasseur at Santa Barbara Title Company, Jeremy became interested in the Presidio project, a historic site in downtown Santa Barbara. He plotted the boundaries of the old fortress by studying historic property documents. By 1967 he was an active member of the Presidio Volunteers, a group who conducted archaeological excavations and public events at the site.
In early 1971, Jeremy wrote a proposal for the future presidio project at the request of Miss Pearl Chase and the Santa Barbara Trust for Historic Preservation (SBTHP). For the next several decades Jeremy played a major part in property acquisitions for what became El Presidio de Santa Barbára State Historic Park. Working with local and state legislators, he made numerous trips to Sacramento to consult with state officials about transfers to the State of lands purchased by SBTHP for the park. He and an assistant to the director of the California Dept. of Parks and Recreation developed the concession agreement through which SBTHP operates the State Park.
Hass was instrumental in early efforts to discover the boundaries of the original presidio and to acquire property for the newly formed State Park. He played an important role in helping negotiate the gift of El Paseo and Casa de la Guerra to SBTHP in 1971. He was a board member from 1970-1976 and was named a Life Honorary Trustee in 1983. He also served briefly as Acting Director of SBTHP in late 1984 to March 1985. In the 1990s he helped arrange the purchase of the Santa Inés Mission Mills lands by SBTHP and he later became a member of SBTHP's Mills Committee. He was a recipient of the Pearl Chase Historic Preservation and Conservation Award in 2000.
Jeremy presented papers at a number of conferences. His intensive research on the subjects of waterworks, fulling mills, and of California pioneer Joseph Chapman contributed not only to his own publications, but to the academic field, providing source material for scholarly research on the subject by others. Hass passed away on June 30, 2014, at his home in Santa Barbara.
Jeremy Hass' father John Kelleher Hass was an attorney and intelligence officer at the Marine Corps air base in Goleta during World War II. The family made Santa Barbara a permanent home after the war. John Hass was the founding partner in the law firm, Weldon and Hass. Like his son, he served on the board of the Trust from 1981 until 1986 and was president from 1984-1985.

Arrangement

The collection is arranged in two series:
Series 1: Santa Barbara Trust for Historic Preservation
Series 2: Jeremy Hass Research and Personal Papers
The collection was received in several separate donations with many documents in no specific order. Staff arranged these loose documents chronologically.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Donated by Jeremy D. Hass.

Separated Materials

One envelope and one folder of miscellaneous photographs were transferred to the Presidio Research Center photograph collection. The envelope contains images of the November 1973 visit of the Duke and Duchess of Seville to Santa Barbara. The folder contains several photos of Jeremy Hass, a parade, early photos of the Presidio reconstruction site, Santa Barbara Mission, and Mission Santa Ines Mills. Twenty-three maps and architectural plans were added to the flat file collection.

Other Finding Aids

For additional materials on the history of the Santa Barbara Trust for Historic Preservation and the reconstruction of the Santa Barbara Presidio, see also the Pearl Chase Papers, MS-01, and the Richard Whitehead Papers, MS-02, both located in the Presidio Research Center.

Preferred Citation

Jeremy D. and John K. Hass Papers, MS-06, Presidio Research Center, Santa Barbara Trust for Historic Preservation, Santa Barbara, California.

Conditions Governing Access

Collection is open to researchers.

Conditions Governing Use

All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Archivist and Librarian. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the Santa Barbara Trust for Historic Preservation Research Center as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained by the reader.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Deeds
Buildings
Santa Barbara (Calif.)--History
Santa Barbara Presidio (Santa Barbara, Calif.)
Santa Barbara Trust for Historic Preservation

 

Santa Barbara Trust for Historic Preservation Activities

 

Chronological Files

Scope and Contents

The Chronological Files subseries contains correspondence, historical research, property research, legal documents, and board materials related to the years Jeremy Hass began working as a Presidio Volunteer researching the boundaries of the Santa Barbara Presidio up through his years as a board and committee member, property advisor, and his brief stint as Acting Director of SBTHP in late 1984. Since the papers were originally filed in the law offices of Weldon and Hass, there are materials addressed to John K. Hass sprinkled throughout. It is likely that both father and son filed materials related to SBTHP into the same filing system.
box-folder 1/1

SBTHP 1958-1967

box-folder 1/2

SBTPH 1968-1969

box-folder 1/2A

Correspondence with Richard Santos 1968-1970

box-folder 1/3

SBTHP 1970

box-folder 1/4

SBTHP 1971

box-folder 1/5

SBTHP 1972

box-folder 1/6

SBTHP 1973

box-folder 1/7

SBTHP 1974

box-folder 1/8

SBTHP 1975

box-folder 1/9

SBTHP 1976

box-folder 1/10

SBTHP 1977

box-folder 1/11

SBTHP 1978-1979

box-folder 1/12

SBTHP 1980

box-folder 1/13

SBTHP 1981

box-folder 1/14

SBTHP 1982

box-folder 1/15

SBTHP 1983

box-folder 1/16

SBTHP 1984

box-folder 1/17-18

SBTHP 1985

box-folder 1/19

SBTHP 1986

box-folder 1/20-2/1

SBTHP 1987

box-folder 2/2

SBTHP 1988-1990

 

Jeremy Hass Subject Files

Scope and Contents

The Jeremy Hass Subject Files subseries complement the chronological files in terms of subject matter. The files are all in their original numbered order and, for the most part, represent activities of Jeremy Hass as Acting Director from 1984-1985. As mentioned above in the chronological subseries, there are some John Hass papers interfiled.
box-folder 2/3

La Belle

box-folder 2/4-5

El Paseo Restaurant

box-folder 2/6

City Commerce Loan

box-folder 2/7

Puritan Leasing

box-folder 2/8

El Paseo Contractor Invoices

box-folder 2/9

Construction Dispute

box-folder 2/10

Rain Cover

box-folder 2/11-12

Meeting

box-folder 2/13

Financial 1972 - Sept. 1984

box-folder 2/14

Financial Oct. 1984 - 1985

box-folder 2/15

Park Operation 1967-1975

box-folder 2/16

Park Operation 1976-1984

box-folder 3/1

Park Operation 1984-1985

box-folder 3/2

IRS Problem

box-folder 3/3-4

El Paseo Management

box-folder 3/5

Personal Correspondence

box-folder 3/6

Plot Maps/El Paseo & Presidio

box-folder 3/7

Appraisals

box-folder 3/8

Photos--History

box-folder 3/9

Historic Rehab. Info.

box-folder 3/10

Canon Perdido Parking Lot

box-folder 3/11

Personnel Policy

box-folder 3/12

Cafe del Paseo

box-folder 3/13

Orena Store

box-folder 3/14

Insurance

box-folder 3/15

Leases & Rental Agreements

box-folder 3/16

Revitalization Proposals for El Paseo

box-folder 3/17

Present Trust Problems & Progress

box-folder 3/18

Landmarks/Sign Regulations

box-folder 3/19

Correspondence Joe Nickelson

box-folder 3/20

Correspondences 1979-1983

box-folder 3/21

JDH Notes & Time Records

box-folder 3/22

Trust Accountings

box-folder 3/23

Legal Documentation

box-folder 3/24

Museum Income Tax

box-folder 3/25-26

Miscellaneous

box-folder 4/1

Abstract of Title Blocks 197 & 215

box-folder 4/2

Deeds of Declaration 1964-1971

box-folder 4/3

Land and Building History

box-folder 4/4-6

SBTHP Property Acquisition

box-folder 4/7

Pico Adobe

box-folder 4/8

City College 1980-1981

box-folder 4/9

Family Service Agency

box-folder 4/10

Wackenreuder Maps

box-folder 4/11

Property Relocation Law and Regulations

box-folder 4/12

El Presidio Properties

box-folder 4/13

El Paseo Properties 1971

box-folder 4/14

El Paseo 1981-1982

box-folder 4/15

Restaurante del Paseo: a California Limited Partnership

box-folder 4/16

SBTHP Administration Policy Disagreement

box-folder 4/17

Goleta Cannons--Notes, Reports

box-folder 4/18

Goleta Cannons--Correspondences

box-folder 4/19-20

Goleta Cannon Committee

 

John Hass Subject Files

Scope and Contents

The John Hass Subject Files subseries has a narrower focus and represent the elder Hass' years on the board of SBTHP and his two year period as president. However, two miscellaneous files on SBTHP actually contain material on early activities from the 1950s and complement the chronological files in subseries one. It is unclear how they came to be filed within John Hass' board papers.
box-folder 4/21

SBTHP 1980-1981

box-folder 4/22

SBTHP 1982

box-folder 4/23

SBTHP 1983

box-folder 4/24

SBTHP Jan. - Mar. 1984

box-folder 5/1

SBTHP April - June 1984

box-folder 5/2

SBTHP June 1984

box-folder 5/3

SBTHP July - Sept. 1984

box-folder 5/4

SBTHP Oct. - Dec. 1984

box-folder 5/5

SBTHP Jan. - Mar. 1985

box-folder 5/6

SBTHP April 1985

box-folder 5/7

SBTHP Board of Trustees Feb. 1975 - Aug. 1984

box-folder 5/8

SBTHP Board of Trustees Sept. 1984 - Jan. 1985

box-folder 5/9

SBTHP Minutes

box-folder 5/10

SBTHP Executive Committee 1984

box-folder 5/11

SBTHP Merchants Assoc. 1984

box-folder 5/12

SBTHP Management, Administration & Other Committees, 1975-1984

box-folder 5/13

SBTHP Management, Administration & Other Committees 1984-1985

box-folder 5/14

SBTHP Fundraising Committee 1981-1983

box-folder 5/15

SBTHP Miscellaneous Jan. 1959 - Feb. 1981

box-folder 5/16

SBTHP Miscellaneous

box-folder 5/17

SBTHP Legal Committee

box-folder 5/18

SBTHP Trust Committee--Rebuilding 1981

box-folder 5/19

SBTHP Presidio Trust Fund

 

Jeremy Hass Research and Personal Papers

Scope and Contents

The Jeremy Hass Research and Personal Papers series contains files on Joseph Chapman, the Santa Inés Mission mills, and mills in general. Included are research notes, drafts, and correspondence. Several additional unrelated files on the Philippines, the Pearl Chase birthday celebration, and copies of some miscellaneous property documents are included in this series.
box-folder 6/1

Talks Presented at Conferences

box-folder 6/2

Correspondence

box-folder 6/3

Joseph Chapman Research Notes

box-folder 6/4

Mission Santa Ines Mill

box-folder 6/5

Windmills and Mills

box-folder 6/6

Fulling

box-folder 6/7

Phillipines--Articles

box-folder 6/8

Pearl Chase Birthday Fund 1968

box-folder 6/9

Photocopies of Historic Documents

General

Includes a copy of Assessment Roll, Santa Barbara Co., Aug. 1853