Fort Baker: Cultural Landscape Report, Golden Gate National Recreation Area, National Park Service
Gilbert C, Hankinson M, Hoke A, Owens E, Judy B, Shors J, Koch K, Warner L. 2005. Fort Baker: Cultural Landscape Report, Golden Gate National Recreation Area, National Park Service. Cultural Landscape Report. NPS Pacific West Regional Office. Pacific West Regional Office
The scope of work for the cultural landscape report (CLR) was developed by park and regional cultural resource staff in the fall of 2001. The CLR team included a historian, cultural geographer, historical architect, and historical landscape architects with technical assistance from the park staff. Regional staff was responsible for all products associated with the project, and the park staff was responsible for coordination including providing reference materials to the team, site logistics, consultation with other park staff and park partners, and general project oversight. The primary management objective guiding the CLR is to provide specific guidance for the treatment of landscape resources in the context of development and adaptive use of east Fort Baker as a retreat and conference center. In this regard, several assumptions have been made that affect the scope of this CLR. • The cultural landscape boundary for Fort Baker follows the historic boundary line for the historic military reservation. While the entire post is considered the cultural landscape, this CLR focuses only on the resources within east Fort Baker. This decision was made to focus treatment guidelines on the pending actions for adaptive use of the site. • Although the military history of Fort Baker spans over 150 years, documentation and evaluation of cultural landscape resources focused on one primary period of significance for the site, with three critical eras. The period of significance is 1867 to 1945. The three eras within this period are 1850-1896 (Pre-Endicott), 1897-1916 (Endicott), and 1917-1949 (the War Years). • Because there is a large volume of research and documentation relating to the history and existing conditions of Fort Baker, no additional historical research was undertaken for this project. • Detailed and technical information about specific resources is referenced in the CLR, but not repeated. • The Golden Gate Bridge Historic District including the bridge, Highway 101 right-ofway, Alexander Road right-of-way, and Vista Point are not included in this study. • The Lime Point Fog signal station was not included in this study. • The history of the Coast Miwok occupancy of the site, the Spanish colonial era and the Mexican land grant era are noted in the History discussion, but not in the Analysis and Evaluation, owing to the lack of visible landscape features extant from these periods. Historical materials from Fort Baker and the Presidio Archives and Record Center (PARC) including photographs, maps, historical reports, inventories, and technical manuals were used to compile the site history and chronology for this report. Historic photographs were especially helpful for supplementing the written histories and verifying information on historic base maps used in the analysis and evaluation section. One week of fieldwork was undertaken to verify existing conditions and supplement technical information required to develop treatment guidelines. The CLR for Fort Baker is divided into two parts. Part 1 includes the Site History, Existing Conditions, and the Analysis and Evaluation of cultural landscape characteristics. Part 2 includes Treatment of the cultural landscape and includes recommendations for vegetation management, rehabilitation of circulation systems, preservation of significant patterns and relationships for the parade ground and structures around Murray Circle, appropriate land use activities, and future development.
- Type
- Published Report
- Authors
- Gilbert, Cathy; Hankinson, Michael; Hoke, Amy; Owens, Erica; Judy, Barbara; Shors, Jessica; Koch, Kimball; Warner, Len
- Date of Issue
- 2005-07
- Publisher
- NPS Pacific West Regional Office
- Units
- GOGA , PWR
- Keywords
- Agriculture, Artillery, Battery, Coastal Miworks, Colonial Revival Style, defense, Endicott Era, Fort Barry, Fort Chronkite, Fortification, Historic Designed Landscape, historic site, Lime Poine Military Reservation, Livestock, Marin Headlands, Military, military post, Mission Revival Style, Rancho Sausolito , Recreation, Seacoast Fortifications of San Francisco, The Home Front, World War I, World War II
- Subjects
- CRIS-HS: 370251: Fort Baker 40MM AA AW No. 14 - Lower , CRIS-HS: 370249: Fort Baker 40MM AA AW No. 14 - Upper , CRIS-HS: 058078: Fort Baker 6-ton Marine Railway and Walkway , CRIS-HS: 370254: Fort Baker AA St. No. 108 , CRIS-HS: 058211: Fort Baker Administration Building , CRIS-HS: 369463: Fort Baker Alexander Avenue , CRIS-HS: 058067: Fort Baker Ammunition Magazine , CRIS-HS: 058040: Fort Baker AMTB Gun Plug, Kirby Cove (058040) , CRIS-HS: 058041: Fort Baker AMTB Gun Plug, Kirby Cove (058041) , CRIS-HS: 058042: Fort Baker AMTB Gun Plug, Kirby Cove (058042) , CRIS-HS: 370246: Fort Baker Anti Aircraft Gun Emplacement Cavallo , CRIS-HS: 370236: Fort Baker Anti-Aircraft Gun Emplacement Duncan , CRIS-HS: 058209: Fort Baker Artillery Barracks (058209) , CRIS-HS: 058210: Fort Baker Artillery Barracks (058210) , CRIS-HS: 058213: Fort Baker Artillery Barracks (058213) , CRIS-HS: 056278: Fort Baker Bakery , CRIS-HS: 010121: Fort Baker Battery 129 Radio/Switchboard Rooms , CRIS-HS: 055363: Fort Baker Battery Cavallo , CRIS-HS: 058047: Fort Baker Battery Cavallo Entrance Gate Post , CRIS-HS: 369480: Fort Baker Battery Cavallo Road , CRIS-HS: 055362: Fort Baker Battery Duncan , CRIS-HS: 058085: Fort Baker Battery Duncan Latrine & Appurtenances , CRIS-HS: 055361: Fort Baker Battery George Yates , CRIS-HS: 055366: Fort Baker Battery Gravelly Beach , CRIS-HS: 055365: Fort Baker Battery Kirby , CRIS-HS: 055367: Fort Baker Battery Orlando Wagner , CRIS-HS: 055369: Fort Baker Battery Spencer , CRIS-HS: 058060: Fort Baker Battery Spencer Administration Building , CRIS-HS: 058065: Fort Baker Battery Spencer Entry Gate , CRIS-HS: 058061: Fort Baker Battery Spencer Equipment Bldg. , CRIS-HS: 058062: Fort Baker Battery Spencer Latrine , CRIS-HS: 058064: Fort Baker Battery Spencer Powerhouse , CRIS-HS: 058063: Fort Baker Battery Spencer Sentry Station , CRIS-HS: 056279: Fort Baker Blacksmith Shop , CRIS-HS: 058050: Fort Baker Bunker Road (Fort Baker to tunnel) , CRIS-HS: 058059: Fort Baker Bunker Road Retaining Wall and Riprap , CRIS-HS: 058128: Fort Baker Cable Casemate Seawall , CRIS-HS: 056280: Fort Baker Carpenter/Paint Shop , CRIS-HS: 369492: Fort Baker Center Road , CRIS-HS: 058202: Fort Baker Commanding Officer's Quarters , CRIS-HS: 056291: Fort Baker Commissary Storehouse , CRIS-HS: 058069: Fort Baker Communications Cable Hut , CRIS-HS: 370240: Fort Baker Concrete Drainage Features , CRIS-HS: 058044: Fort Baker Conzelman Road (1870 route) , CRIS-HS: 369511: Fort Baker Drown Road , CRIS-HS: 369523: Fort Baker Dubois Road , CRIS-HS: 056290: Fort Baker East Road , CRIS-HS: 370242: Fort Baker East Road Masonry Drainage Features , CRIS-HS: 058046: Fort Baker Electrical Transformer Building , CRIS-HS: 058200: Fort Baker Exchange Service Station , CRIS-HS: 370297: Fort Baker Fences , CRIS-HS: 055370: Fort Baker Fire Control Station B1 Kirby , CRIS-HS: 055371: Fort Baker Fire Control Station B1 Wagner , CRIS-HS: 370228: Fort Baker Fire Control Station B111/20 Lime Point , CRIS-HS: 055360: Fort Baker Fire Control Station B1S1 Spencer , CRIS-HS: 055359: Fort Baker Fire Control Station F1 Baker , CRIS-HS: 058049: Fort Baker Flagstaff , CRIS-HS: 058077: Fort Baker Flammable Storage Building , CRIS-HS: 370209: Fort Baker Fuel & Berthing Dock w/ 10-ton Derrick , CRIS-HS: 058225: Fort Baker Garage (058225) , CRIS-HS: 058226: Fort Baker Garage (058226) , CRIS-HS: 217431: Fort Baker Garage at FB0604 , CRIS-HS: 058224: Fort Baker Garage at FB0605 , CRIS-HS: 056283: Fort Baker Guard House , CRIS-HS: 058054: Fort Baker Heating Fuel Storage Tank , CRIS-HS: 058217: Fort Baker Hospital Steward's Quarters (Single) , CRIS-HS: 369535: Fort Baker Kober Street , CRIS-HS: 058120: Fort Baker Kober Street Retaining Walls , CRIS-HS: 056296: Fort Baker Launchway House , CRIS-HS: 058074: Fort Baker Marine Repair Shop Building , CRIS-HS: 058045: Fort Baker McCullough Road , CRIS-HS: 056293: Fort Baker McReynolds Road , CRIS-HS: 058119: Fort Baker McReynolds Road Retaining Wall , CRIS-HS: 058127: Fort Baker Mine Cable Casemate , CRIS-HS: 055364: Fort Baker Mine Cable Tank Building , CRIS-HS: 055355: Fort Baker Mine Depot Powerhouse , CRIS-HS: 055356: Fort Baker Mine Depot TNT Storage Magazine , CRIS-HS: 058068: Fort Baker Mine Detonator Magazine , CRIS-HS: 055357: Fort Baker Mine Loading Rooms , CRIS-HS: 370207: Fort Baker Mine Loading Wharf Dolphin - North , CRIS-HS: 370203: Fort Baker Mine Loading Wharf Dolphin - South , CRIS-HS: 055354: Fort Baker Mine Storehouse , CRIS-HS: 055358: Fort Baker Mine Wharf , CRIS-HS: 058080: Fort Baker Moore Breakwater , CRIS-HS: 056285: Fort Baker Moore Road , CRIS-HS: 370214: Fort Baker Moore Road Breakwater , CRIS-HS: 056292: Fort Baker Murray CirHSe , CRIS-HS: 058071: Fort Baker NCO Family Housing (058071) , CRIS-HS: 058072: Fort Baker NCO Family Housing (058072) , CRIS-HS: 058073: Fort Baker NCO Family Housing (058073) , CRIS-HS: 058201: Fort Baker NCO Mess , CRIS-HS: 058220: Fort Baker NCO Quarters (Duplex) (058220) , CRIS-HS: 058221: Fort Baker NCO Quarters (Duplex) (058221) , CRIS-HS: 058222: Fort Baker NCO Quarters (Duplex) (058222) , CRIS-HS: 058218: Fort Baker NCO Quarters (Duplex) (058218) , CRIS-HS: 058219: Fort Baker NCO Quarters (Duplex) (058219) , CRIS-HS: 058203: Fort Baker Officers Quarters Duplex (058203) , CRIS-HS: 058204: Fort Baker Officers Quarters Duplex (058204) , CRIS-HS: 058205: Fort Baker Officers Quarters Duplex (058205) , CRIS-HS: 058206: Fort Baker Officers Quarters Duplex (058206) , CRIS-HS: 058207: Fort Baker Officers Quarters Duplex (058207) , CRIS-HS: 370217: Fort Baker Oil Pump House , CRIS-HS: 056281: Fort Baker Ordnance Storehouse , CRIS-HS: 392351: Fort Baker Parade Ground , CRIS-HS: 370244: Fort Baker Parade Ground Commemorative Monument , CRIS-HS: 058214: Fort Baker Post Chapel , CRIS-HS: 058212: Fort Baker Post Exchange & Gymnasium , CRIS-HS: 058208: Fort Baker Post Hospital , CRIS-HS: 058122: Fort Baker Post Hospital Ambulance Garage , CRIS-HS: 056295: Fort Baker Pump House , CRIS-HS: 056289: Fort Baker Quartermaster & Subsistence Storehouse , CRIS-HS: 058048: Fort Baker Rangefinder Station @ Battery Cavallo , CRIS-HS: 055368: Fort Baker Ridge Battery , CRIS-HS: 058066: Fort Baker Ridge Battery Powerhouse , CRIS-HS: 058055: Fort Baker Ridge Water Tank , CRIS-HS: 369584: Fort Baker Roth Road , CRIS-HS: 058079: Fort Baker Satterlee Breakwater , CRIS-HS: 369560: Fort Baker Satterlee Road , CRIS-HS: 058058: Fort Baker Sausalito Lateral Overpass at Bunker Rd , CRIS-HS: 370231: Fort Baker Sausalito Overpass at East Road , CRIS-HS: 058081: Fort Baker Seawall , CRIS-HS: 010120: Fort Baker Sentry Station , CRIS-HS: 369575: Fort Baker Somerville Road , CRIS-HS: 217443: Fort Baker Steel Marine Shop Building , CRIS-HS: 369547: Fort Baker Swain Road , CRIS-HS: 058121: Fort Baker Tennis Court Retaining Wall , CRIS-HS: 370410: Fort Baker Trails , CRIS-HS: 058215: Fort Baker Transformer Substation , CRIS-HS: 058101: Fort Baker Utility Structure , CRIS-HS: 370212: Fort Baker Utility Vaults , CRIS-HS: 056282: Fort Baker Wagon Shed , CRIS-HS: 370221: Fort Baker Water Pump House , CRIS-HS: 058056: Fort Baker Water Pump Station (058056) , CRIS-HS: 058057: Fort Baker Water Pump Station (058057) , CRIS-HS: 058084: Fort Baker Water Reservoir , CRIS-HS: 058051: Fort Baker Water Tank (058051) , CRIS-HS: 058052: Fort Baker Water Tank (058052) , CRIS-HS: 058053: Fort Baker Water Tank (058053) , CRIS-HS: 058075: Fort Baker Welding Shop , CRIS-HS: 058007: Fort Barry Julian Road