UKIAH, CA., 10/23/16 — So far, Paul Poulos has spent the entire 21st century building an archive. Poulos has been the director of the Mendocino County Historical Society for about 16 years, which is when he took over the project of planning a building to house the precious things at the Held-Poage Research Library at 603 W. Perkins Street in Ukiah. Now, construction of the building is complete and Poulos is waiting on final approval from the city before the old records can settle into their respective rooms and be more accessible to local historians.
Currently, many of the records are stored in a former tack room next to the carriage house. “This is the problem” that the new archive building will solve, Poulos said, gesturing at the stacks of large volumes. Because they are stacked on top of each other, rather than standing upright on a shelf, the volumes are getting compressed and misshapen.
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