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State of California ⎯ The Resources Agency

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DEPARTMENT OF PARKS AND RECREATION

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CONTINUATION SHEET

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Resource Name or # (Assigned by recorder) Chart House Restaurant

⌧ Continuation

*Recorded by P. Moruzzi, T. Grimes, L. Heumann

*Date September 23, 2002

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B10. Significance (continued):

Kellogg’s diversified experience emphasizes composing a totally unified concept. He has a rather unorthodox philosophy

regarding architecture and the profession. "Although the ‘architectural school’ taught basic engineering, it also inadvertently

taught me what not to do. Architecture cannot be taught. Beauty comes from within. I learned early that license does not

make Architecture. Competitions are, for the most part, political. The technology of any time is only a tool. The AIA is

composed of those, with and without license, who primarily are in the business of promoting themselves rather than

Architecture. And a committee will never be composed of anything more than another level of mediocrity.” Kellogg believes

“Organic Architecture is the Mother of the Arts. Beauty is the sustainable essence of life. Nature is not sentimental. Both

beauty and nature are the practical aspects of our compassion for survival.”

The Chart House, Kellogg’s only known Coachella Valley commission, brilliantly demonstrates Kellogg’s design philosophy.

Here he created a building that is an integral and ‘organic’ part of the environment as it grows out of the hill. Hugging the

land, the partially subterranean building folds, curves, and undulates with the topography. It is clearly one-of-a-kind. The

property appears eligible for separate listing in the National Register of Historic Places under Criterion C for exceptional merit

as an example of Organic Modern design (a “3S” National Register Status Code). In addition, the property would be eligible

for designation under an existing or proposed local ordinance.

P5b. Description/Date of Photo: View from beneath entrance overhang, August 2002.

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