By Chrisline Lampert, Architect, AIA, NCARB July 2019 The San Clemente Art Supply store at 1531 North El Camino Real just closed its doors. It’s been a staple in town since the Herdells purchased the building in 2001 and restored it to its original magnificence...
By Christine Lampert, Architect, AIA, NCARB October 2020 When San Clemente’s North Beach area was master planned in the 1920s it was designated as an entertainment and cultural district. The swimming pool and the beach club, as well as plans for future...
By Christine Lampert, Architect, AIA. NCARB June 2019 Front of Bill & Kelly Conrad’s House Pool Deck at Conrad House Mid-Century Modern architecture isn’t a phrase that we hear often in San Clemente, since it’s a town known...
By Christine Lampert, Architect, AIA, NCARB January 2019 Before 1920, San Clemente didn’t exist. There were grasslands with sweeping ocean views and ranchlands that extended up into the mountains as far as one could see. The three founders of our town-Ole...
BY CHRISTINE LAMPERT, ARCHITECT, AIA, NCARB January 2019 Old photo of Casa Romantica Ole Hanson was the visionary who, along with his business partners, developed the new town of San Clemente in the 1920s in the empty, rolling hills halfway between Los Angeles and...
