| Public Health Service Hospital | |
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 The Presidio Landmark (former main building of the Public Health Service Hospital) in 2017 | |
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| Geography | |
| Location | 1801 Wedemeyer Street, San Francisco Presidio, San Francisco, California, United States |
| Coordinates | 37°47′14″N 122°28′23″W / 37.78722°N 122.47306°W |
| Organization | |
| Funding | Government hospital |
| Services | |
| Beds | 500 (in 1853) |
| History | |
| Former name(s) | San Francisco Marine Hospital, U.S. Marine Hospital |
| Opened | 1853 |
| Closed | 1981 |
| Links | |
| Website | www |
| Lists | Hospitals in California |
The Public Health Service Hospital (PHSH) is a defunct hospital located in the Presidio of San Francisco, it was in operation (in this name) from 1912 to 1981. The precursor hospital was the San Francisco Marine Hospital, established in 1853, and renamed in 1912.[1][2] The building for the Public Health Service Hospital was erected in 1931 or 1932, and in 2010 the building was converted into a residential apartment building.
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The 2011 California Governor’s Historic Preservation Awards were presented on November 17th at Leland Stanford Mansion State Historic Park in Sacramento. There were a total of 12 projects or programs that received awards. What follows is the presentation made at the awards ceremony about one of the 2011 award winners. This award recognizes the efforts of the Presidio Trust to revitalize the Public Health Service Hospital District, which had been left vacant, deteriorating and prey to vandals for 25 years until the San Francisco Presidio joined the National Park System in 1994 and Congress then saw fit to establish the Presidio Trust to preserve the Presidio’s interior acreage. The Public Health Service Hospital District in San Francisco’s Presidio started as a Marine Corps hospital built by the US Treasury to care for sailors. It was moved to the southern edge of the Presidio in 1895 and in 1912 became part of the Public Health Service, caring for immigrants, Native Americans, and patients suffering from infectious diseases. A 36-acre Colonial-revival campus replaced the original buildings in 1932. Designed by Treasury Architect James Wetmore, it included a 6-story hospital, nurses’ quarters, surgeons’ homes, labs, a power plant, and a community center. Revitalization of the district required considerable creativity, perseverance, and community support, as well as substantial public and private investment. The result is a sustainable mixed-use community with housing, office space, a preschool, a printing press, trails, and 25 acres of open space and native habitat. This year’s jury was especially pleased by this project because it can serve as a model for sustainable historic preservation in other situations. Congratulations to all the winners of the 2011 California Governor’s Historic Preservation Awards. Please view the additional videos available on this site for information about the other 2011 award winners. For more information about this awards program, visit www.ohp.parks.ca.gov/governorsawards.
History
San Francisco Marine Hospital
In 1851, United States Congress established the hospital as the San Francisco Marine Hospital (also known as the U.S. Marine Hospital, San Francisco).[3] The Marine Hospital Service was an organization of Marine Hospitals dedicated to the care of ill and disabled seamen in the United States Merchant Marine, the United States Coast Guard, and other federal beneficiaries.
The building was completed in 1853, and had 500 beds at the time of opening.[3] The first location was at Rincon Point in 1853; it was damaged by the 1868 Hayward earthquake and abandoned.
A new building on the Presidio of San Francisco opened in 1875. A cemetery associated with the San Francisco Marine Hospital at the Presidio was actively used from approximately 1881 to 1912,[4] and (as of 2006) the remains of the cemetery were still partially visible.[4]
All of the Marine Hospital Service facilities nationwide evolved into part of the United States Public Health Service agency and the San Francisco Marine Hospital was renamed Public Health Service Hospital in 1912.
Public Health Service Hospital
The current building opened in 1932.[1][5] Two wings were added in the 1950s, which were later demolished in 2009.[1][6] In 1981, the Public Health Service Hospital shut down because of budget cuts.[7]
Between 1982 and 1988, the buildings housed the San Francisco branch of the Defense Language Institute. It was closed in December 1988, and all remaining students were moved to Monterey, with plans to sell the hospital to the city of San Francisco. In the following years, the building remained empty, and became popular with squatters, graffiti artists and ghost hunters who were attracted by the allegedly haunted former morgue and operating rooms.[7]
The historic 1932 modernist building was converted and rehabilitated for housing, and opened in 2010 as the Presidio Landmark apartments.[8]
- Public Health Service Hospital historical photos
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San Francisco Marine Hospital, a precursor
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San Francisco Marine Hospital (1875)
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Aerial view of the hospital
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The current hospital, prior to the 1950s demolition of the two wings
See also
References
- ^ a b c "Presidio of San Francisco - Public Health Service Hospital (U.S. National Park Service)". U.S. National Park Service. 2007-12-25. Archived from the original on 2007-12-25. Retrieved 2020-12-26.
- ^ Dowd, Katie (2016-06-16). "Historic asylums and sanitariums of Northern California". SFGate. Retrieved 2021-12-20.
- ^ a b "1868–1898 - The Origins of the University of California and Affiliated Colleges, San Francisco's First Medical Institutions: Hospitals and Pesthouses". A History of UCSF, University of California San Francisco. Retrieved 2021-12-21.
- ^ a b Nolte, Carl (2006-11-25). "San Francisco: Merchant seamen forgotten in death, Mariners' cemetery buried in debris, used as parking lot". SFGATE. Retrieved 2021-12-19.
- ^ King, John (2010-07-06). "S.F. hospital gets proper treatment in makeover". SFGate. Retrieved 2021-12-21.
- ^ Gordon, Rachel (December 5, 2008). "S.F. Presidio hospital heads toward history". San Francisco Chronicle.
- ^ a b Berger, Chris (2014-03-04). "San Francisco Military Base Hospital Reborn as Apartments". Curbed. Retrieved 2020-01-13.
- ^ King, John (July 6, 2010). "S.F. hospital gets proper treatment in makeover". San Francisco Chronicle.
External links
- National Park Service: Public Health Service Hospital
- Loupiote.com: Photos of Public Health Service Hospital, before wings were demolished
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