Aquatic Park Historic District

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Aquatic Park Historic District
(U.S. National Historic Landmark)
San Francisco Maritime Museum.
San Francisco Maritime Museum.
Location: San Francisco, California
Architect: Works Progress Administration
Architectural style(s): Moderne
Designated as NHL: May 28, 1987[1]
Added to NRHP: January 26, 1984[2]
NRHP Reference#: 84001183
Governing body: NATIONAL PARK SERVICE

Aquatic Park Historic District is a building complex on the San Francisco Bay waterfront in San Francisco, California, United States. It is located within San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park and is itself a National Historic Landmark.

The district includes a "beach, bathhouse, municipal pier, restrooms, concessions stand, stadia, and two speaker towers".[3]

It houses the San Francisco Maritime Museum in a Streamline Moderne (late Art Deco) building built as a public bathhouse. The building was originally built (starting in 1936) by the WPA as a public bathhouse, and its interior is decorated with fantastic and colorful murals.

The Steamship Room illustrates the technological evolution of maritime power from wind to steam, whilst the second floor displays include three photomurals of the early San Francisco waterfront, lithographic stones, scrimshaw and whaling guns. The third floor gallery is used for visiting exhibitions and is in 2005 exhibiting "Sparks", an exhibition of shipboard radio, radiotelephone, and radioteletype technology.

It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1987.[1][4][3]

The Maritime Museum is currently closed for renovation. It will reopen in 2009.

It is at the foot of Polk Street, and a minute's walk from the visitor center and Hyde Street Pier.

[edit] References

  1. ^ a b Aquatic Park Historic District. National Historic Landmark summary listing. National Park Service. Retrieved on 2007-10-23.
  2. ^ National Register Information System. National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service (2007-01-23).
  3. ^ a b "Architecture in the Parks: A National Historic Landmark Theme Study: Aquatic Park Historic District", by Laura Soullière Harrison. National Historic Landmark Theme Study. National Park Service. Retrieved on 2008-02-26.
  4. ^ James P. Delgado (February 1, 1984), National Register of Historic Places Inventory-Nomination: Aquatic Park Historic DistrictPDF (1.55 MiB), National Park Service  and Accompanying 19 photos, exterior and interior, undated.PDF (1.28 MiB)
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