- City:
- San Francisco, CA
- Site Type:
- Infrastructure and Utilities, Maritime: Harbors, Ports & Lighthouses
- New Deal Agencies:
- Public Works Funding, Public Works Administration (PWA)
Description
‘This project at the port of San Francisco includes two passenger piers, each 161 by 840 feet, with railroad tracks on each side connecting the piers with the railway yards, a transit shed on each pier, and a connecting wharf between piers 35 and 37 for the handling of coastwise cargoes. … The project was completed in May 1938 at a construction cost of $1,368,476 and a project cost of $1,410,235.’–Short and Brown, p. 427.
Source notes
Short, C. W. (Charles Wilkins) and Stanley-Brown, R. (Rudolph). Public Buildings : a Survey of Architecture of Projects Constructed by Federal and Other Governmental Bodies between the Years 1933 and 1939 with the Assistance of the Public Works Administration. Washington, D.C. : Public Works Administration : U.S. G.P.O., 1939.Contribute to this Site
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