What Is Our Mission?

To Educate the community about the value of recognizing, preserving, securing, and displaying the Monterey area's historic assets for public benefit.

To Support activities which interpret and share the Monterey area's rich cultural heritage with residents and visitors.

To Encourage residents to be advocates for ideas, programs, and plans which contribute to the understanding of the Monterey area's cultural, ethnic, artistic, and architectural legacy.

Our Current Concerns:

Paraiso Hot Springs Resort
Development Update

At long last the much delayed Environmental Impact Report is promised by county officials to be released to the public sometime in July.

Recap: The turn of the century watering hole of the rich and powerful located in the hills outside of Soledad was illegally demolished in November of 2003 shocking many Monterey County Residents. Subsequent newspaper accounts quoted the Philadelphia based owners denying that there was anything historic at the location.

AMAP is committed to advocating mitigation that will discourage any developer from any action in the future. We have suggested that the value lost in the demolition be assessed by a qualified expert and that an equal amount be given over to support historic preservation projects in the Soledad community. AMAP has been working with city and county officials over the past two years discussing the project.