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Tessa Balc
Audience engagement producer
Top story
Fifty years after the city saved them, La Jolla’s Red Rest and Red Roost cottages face more challenges
Two cottages stand at 1187 and 1179 Coast Blvd, known as the Red Rest and Red Roost. They are thought to be the oldest surviving wood-framed structures in La Jolla.
Now, there’s a question of whether they’ll be around much longer to retain that title.
This isn’t the first time the cottages stood to face the end of their road. It as only after the city designated the pair as a local historical landmark in 1975 they were saved when a previous owner was eyeing demolition. Shortly thereafter, the cottages were individually listed on the National Register and then cataloged in the Library of Congress.
But let’s get back to the present. There’s a proposal currently moving through the city’s permitting process that would demolish and remove Red Rest. Red Roost would be reroofed and secured against further damage, without any interior work on the books.
For some context: A fire badly damaged Red Rest in October 2020. According to the city Red Rest suffered a near-total loss of historic material in the blaze. When the plans were submitted for the current project in 2025, the city had determined that the cottage had essentially been lost as a historical structure.
But a former staff member of the city’s Historical Resources Board is arguing that it shouldn’t be the case. Some feel that the city has “thrown in the towel” on protecting these structures, as they have not been maintained for the past couple of decades.
That’s where the project stands now. A spokesperson from the city said they would like to take the necessary steps they can to preserve Red Roost, but the condition of Red Rest is too far gone. Others are still fighting to keep both cottages standing.
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Stories you should know about
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🧬 Salk Institute researchers make progress on ALS and autoimmune disease treatments: Scientists still do not know what causes the neurodegenerative disease but a new study of it has shifted the focus toward exploring the role of an immune cell, called microglia, that could be driving disease progression.
🎾 San Diego’s Taylor Fritz stunned in U.S. Open 3rd round: The Torrey Pines High alum, known for his exceptionally thoughtful answers in interviews appeared shaken after a 5-set loss to No. 24 seed Francisco Cerundolo in the third round.
What else we’re reading
⚠️ A state order is calling two chemicals found off of Euclid Avenue in the Chollas Creek community “an imminent and/or substantial endangerment” to public health. They’re ordering that the chemical used in aerospace manufacturing at the former site of the Fleet Aerospace Langley Facility get cleaned up. That hasn’t happened yet. (inewsource)
🚨 San Diego City College is denouncing ICE’s arrest of a student near the campus on Tuesday. Meanwhile, DHS said the person was not a student, but a Haitian immigrant in the country illegally. (KPBS)
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