De Young Museum (demolished) – San Francisco CA

City:
San Francisco, CA

Site Type:
Education and Health, Museums

New Deal Agencies:
Work Relief Programs, Works Progress Administration (WPA)

Site Survival:
No Longer Extant

Description

Rehabilitated and completed most of museum building, ventilation and heating.–Healy, p. 71.

Unfortunately, this building was severely damaged in the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake. It was eventually demolished and replaced with the new structure which opened in 2005.

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. United States. Work Projects Administration (Calif.) Report on Progress of the Works Program in San Francisco. January, 1938. Works Progress Administration / William Mooser, Jr., branch manager. [San Francisco? 1938]

Location Info


50 Tea Garden Drive
San Francisco, CA 94118
San Francisco County

Location notes: Hagiwara Tea Garden Drive at John F. Kennedy Drive and Martin Luther King, Jr. Drive.
New De Young is still in the same location.

Coordinates: 37.771600, -122.46900

Site Details

Total Cost
$154,051.00

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