We Need Your Help!

We're at a critical crossroads in our efforts to save the historic Captain Fletcher's Inn at Navarro Beach. Navarro-by-the-Sea Center (NSCR) is a small all-volunteer 501(c)(3) nonprofit working with State Parks to save the two remaining historic structures at the mouth of the Navarro River, and reopen them for public education, interpretation, and research. Thanks to a planning grant from the California Cultural and Historical Endowment (CCHE), we've been able to complete construction plans to stabilize and save the Inn. This website provides details on our progress to date and goals. Please visit our Current Planning/CCHE Grant page for details.

NSCR urgently needs your help in saving the Inn and making sure we don't lose this wonderful icon of our coast. If we don't act soon, our architect and structural engineers have told us it will be too late to save the Inn. Given the current budget crisis, State Parks will have no funds to complete the critical stabilization work, so we're reaching out to the surrounding community and foundations before it is too late. We're seeking donations large and small to complete the stabilization plans and full rehabilitation, and need your support to accomplish this goal. Please visit our How to Help page to find out how you can help us in our efforts to “Save the Inn”.

Thanks to an outpouring of support, NSCR recently received a second grant for $319,000 from CCHE, this time for construction to stabilize and save the Inn! Together with the unused funds from our first grant, and broad local financial support, this funding will collectively provide an estimated $598,000 to implement the critical stabilization work on the Inn. Funded tasks include demolition work, hazardous cleanup of asbestos and lead, a new perimeter foundation and front porch, permanent roof, earthquake structural retrofitting, repair of the siding and repainting, and temporary windows on the ground floor. We still have to complete agreements with State Parks and CCHE before we can proceed with construction, but we hope to move forward in 2010 with asbestos clean up and demolition of at least the non-historic motel building, and complete the major stabilization work in spring and summer of 2011.

We still have a long ways to go to complete the full building renovation and interpretive displays. Please help us finish the work necessary to “Save the Inn” and donate your tax-deductible contribution today, or contact us at 707/877-3477 if you have a construction-related skill or building materials that you think we could use as an in-kind contribution. We're almost there, please help us reach our goal. Please make checks out to "NSCR" with a notation to “Save the Inn Fund” and mail them today to NSCR, PO Box 1710, Mendocino, CA 95460.

Thanks to all who have contributed so far! Raising over $230,000 locally is an amazing accomplishment in itself and it's only been possible because of your generous donations, large and small. And special thanks to the following major donors who have made donations of cash and in-kind contributions valued at $1,000 or more:

• Anonymous Donors
• Anderson's Alternatives
• Carey & Co Architects
• Community Foundation of Mendocino County
• Savings Bank of Mendocino County
• Harvest Market
• Max Thelan, Jr.,Oramax Foundation
• Lori Kaye Landscape & General Contracting
• RD Beacon of Beacon Light by the Sea
• Rossi Building Material in Fort Bragg
• Scramaglia & Hayes Construction
• Fifth District Supervisor David Colfax and Mendocino County
• Tom Pryor Electric & General Contracting