Fort Point, U.S. Highway 101, San Francisco, San Francisco County, CA
Summary
Significance: Designed to protect the entrance to the San Francisco Bay. Classic example of brick seacoast forts. Abandoned in 1886 when powerful rifled cannons made brick forts obsolete.
Survey number: HABS CA-1239
National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 70000146
Tags
Date
1933 - 1970
Contributors
Historic American Buildings Survey, creator
Maul, David, transmitter
De Vries, David G
Jandoli, Liz, transmitter
Location
Fort Point National Historical Site, 37.80770, -122.47500
Source
Library of Congress
Copyright info
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