- City:
- San Francisco, CA
- Site Type:
- Parks and Recreation
- New Deal Agencies:
- Work Relief Programs, Works Progress Administration (WPA)
- Started:
- 1939
- Completed:
- 1939
- Quality of Information:
- Very Good
- Marked:
- Yes
- Site Survival:
- Extant
Description
As part of extensive improvements around Golden Gate Park in San Francisco CA, the Works Progress Administration (WPA) built horse stables for public use in 1939.
The four stables are built of wood and arranged in a U around what is now a parking lot. They were renovated around the turn of the millennium and are still in active use.
The public stables, like the nearby police stables, are located close to the park’s Polo Field.
Source notes
Healy, Clyde E. San Francisco Improved: Report of Clyde E. Healy, Assistant City Engineer - City of San Francisco and Coordinator of W.P.A. Projects, Period October 10, 1935 to August 31, 1939. San Francisco : [s.n.]., 1939. p. 70.
Timothy Keegan. "W.P.A. Construction in San Francisco (1935-1942)." The Argonaut Vol. 14, No. 1, Spring 2003. online at: https://www.foundsf.org/index.php?title=W.P.A._Construction_in_San_Francisco_%281935-1942%29
Site originally submitted by Gray Brechin on June 17, 2010.
Additional contributions by Richard Walker.
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Shaina
Laurence Griffin
Roger Burgner
Do you have old photos like when it was being constructed the public stables not the police one
Hi Francis, unfortunately we don’t, but if you find any, please send them our way!
You may want to check the San Francisco Room in the main Library, they have a ton of photos!!
Nearby, closer to the Polo Field, is what I think of as a scorekeeper’s booth. It looks like it might have been part of this project. It’s marked on the map as “Linda”. Is there any information about it?