Hunters Point

National Register of Historic Places Nomination and Historic American Engineering Record

JRP prepared two nominations to the National Register of Historic Places for historic properties at the former Hunters Point Naval Shipyard, the Hunters Point Commercial Drydock Historic District and Drydock 4, located in the City and County of San Francisco.  JRP also prepared a Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) for the Hunters Point Commercial Drydock Historic District.  These documents were prepared in support of a memorandum of agreement among the US Navy, the Advisory Council for Historic Preservation, and the California State Historic Preservation Officer regarding the leasing and disposal of historic properties on the former Hunters Point Naval Shipyard.  The Hunters Point Commercial Drydock Historic District was constructed in three phases between 1903 and 1930 by commercial interests.  The primary features of the historic district, Drydock 2 and Drydock 3 and their associated pump houses were designed by widely-respected San Francisco engineer Howard C. Holmes.  The architecture of the pump houses was Neoclassical revival in style, a style popularized by the Columbian Exposition of 1893 and used for industrial buildings in the early twentieth century.  In 1939, the Navy acquired the site and established a shipyard which they rapidly expanded during World War II.  During the war, the Navy built another drydock, Drydock 4, south of the original commercial drydock district in an area built with fill.  Documentation of the commercial drydock historic district and Drydock 4 included plans and drawings, historic photographs, specifications, and textual documentation.  Large format photographs of each of the six components of the historic district and Drydock 4 were professionally produced. 

Prepared with Far Western Anthropological Research Group for Naval Facilities Engineering Command Southwest, 2008-2010.