Ferry Station Post Office Building
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Ferry Station Post Office Building | |
.jpg) Ferry Station Post Office in 2008 | |
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| Location | 101 The Embarcadero at Mission St., San Francisco, California |
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| Coordinates | 37°47′39″N 122°23′28″W / 37.79417°N 122.39111°W |
| Area | 0.6 acres (0.24 ha) |
| Built | 1915 |
| Architect | A. A. Pyle |
| Architectural style | Mediterranean |
| NRHP reference No. | 78000756 |
| Added to NRHP | December 1, 1978 |
The Ferry Station Post Office Building, also known as the Agriculture Building, is a historic building in San Francisco, California, United States. It was added to the U.S. National Register of Historic Places in 1978.
Building[edit]
The building is located on the Embarcadero in the SoMa District, at the foot of Mission Street.[1][2] Designed by A. A. Pyle of the California Board of State Harbor Commissioners, it is a two-story steel-framed building[3] in Mediterranean Revival style reminiscent of a palazzo,[4] of brick with trompe-l'œil stone trim of terracotta.[1][2] It has a reinforced concrete foundation resting on a wharf built at the same time and supported on wood pilings.[3] An arch over the double entrance doors has a phoenix and a flagpole in the center. The upper story is decorated with two terracotta shields and with patterned brick panels.[3]
History[edit]
It was constructed in 1915 as the main post office for San Francisco, with mail arriving by water and then being distributed by streetcar.[1] Construction cost $31,981.50; the contract was signed on October 22, 1914, and it was completed on May 6, 1915.[3] It was enlarged at the rear in 1918. In 1925 it ceased to be a post office and was used for transportation company offices; in 1933 it was transferred to the state Agriculture Department.[3][4] It was Amtrak's San Francisco terminal, with buses connecting to trains at Oakland and Emeryville,[2] until March 2015, when this moved to the Temporary TransBay Terminal pending completion of the Transbay Transit Center.[5]
The Ferry Station Post Office Building was added to the National Register of Historic Places on December 1, 1978.[1]
References[edit]
- ^ a b c d "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
- ^ a b c "National Register of Historic Places in San Francisco: National Register #78000756: Ferry Station Post Office". NoeHill. Retrieved 2018-12-17.
- ^ a b c d e "Application, National Register of Historic Places, Port of San Francisco Embarcadero Historic District: Section 7" (PDF). January 2006. pp. 59, 150–51.
- ^ a b United States Urban Mass Transportation Administration; San Francisco Municipal Railway; San Francisco Public Utilities Commission (August 1989). Muni Metro Turnaround Project, San Francisco: Final Environmental Impact Statement. San Francisco: Urban Mass Transportation Administration, Western Area Office. p. 86. OCLC 76954634.
- ^ Mike Barnbaum (2015-02-07). "San Francisco Amtrak Station Will Move". Rail Passenger Association of California and Nevada.
External links[edit]
Media related to Ferry Station Post Office (San Francisco) at Wikimedia Commons
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