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Pier 70 and the Union Iron Works yard

Historic site · Dogpatch, California

The shipbuilding yard east of Illinois Street between 18th and 22nd Streets. The Union Iron Works Historic District was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on 17 April 2014, reference number 14000150.

History

San Francisco Planning's record gives sixty-six acres at Potrero Point, bordered by San Francisco Bay, with "buildings, piers, slips, cranes, segments of a railroad network, and landscape elements", most of them "constructed of unreinforced brick masonry, concrete, and steel framing with corrugated iron or steel cladding." Structures within the yard include a Bethlehem office building of 1917 by Frederick Meyer in Renaissance Revival, Power House No. 1 of 1912 by Charles P. Weeks, a Union Iron Works office of 1896 by Percy & Hamilton, and the machine shops of 1885.

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