Petaluma Turning Basin Trestle: Misconceptions and Opportunities

Christopher Stevick has a degree in art history and is a licensed contractor in Petaluma.
He has spent 14 years on the Board of Directors of Petaluma’s premier preservation organization, Heritage Homes, including three terms as its president. Chris chaired the Preservation Advisory Committee for the City of Petaluma and has been a judge for Petaluma’s Outstanding Preservation Awards for 18 years.
He has organized some 20 tours and fundraisers for Heritage Homes and the Petaluma Trolley. Chris designed Petaluma’s Sesquicentennial logo and put the trestle in the center of it.

In 2007, Chris received an award for Outstanding Preservation Leadership from Heritage Homes.

In 2011 Chris was proclaimed Petaluma’s “Good Egg” by the city Council. Since 2002, he has spearheaded Petaluma’s trestle preservation movement, creating awareness of our unique P&SR Trolley history and its potential for preservation, plus showing how the Trestle could be restored as a Prominade for future generations.
He does maintenance and detailed restorations for many of our major commercial and residential buildings downtown, with period-correct design, both creating and restoring fine craftsmanship. One example of his original work was designing the St Vincent’s fountain in such a way to look like it was there originally.

In 2017 Chris received the Landmarks of Petaluma Preservation Award in part for his contribution to the restoration work around the quad and interior of Hotel Petaluma, returning it to its original glory.   The link is the reception of that award which he received in the Carnegie Library/Petaluma Museum, on 4th Street, a building which he helped to restore.    https://youtu.be/gjTgXByPzxQ