Presidio Gate: Cultural Landscape Report, Golden Gate National Recreation Area, National Park Service
1996. Presidio Gate: Cultural Landscape Report, Golden Gate National Recreation Area, National Park Service. Cultural Landscape Report. NPS Pacific West Regional Office. Pacific West Regional Office
As stated in the National Historic Landmark nomination update, “The Presidio of San Frnacisco is the oldest Army installation in the American West and one of the longest-garrisoned posts in the country. Over two hundred years of military occupation of the Presidio have resulted in the development of a complex historic district of several overlaid historic landscapes, each composed of buildings, structures, objects, sites, and features representing at least eight distinct phases of development…The significance of the Presidio rests not only on resources within Post boundaries, but also on the preeminence of two adjacent and interrelated landscapes: the urban development of the City of San Francisco and the natural geography of San Francisco Bay. The spectacular siting of the Presidio, guarding the Golden Gate to San Francisco bay, is unequaled by any post in the country. Further, no other military reservation within a major United States city is at once as large as the Presidio and so prominently located within the surrounding urban setting. For over a hundred years, the Post has served San Francisco as a man-made forested reserve amidst the city’s dense residential development; the lush character of the Presidio as a wooded reserve has endured to the present day.”
- Type
- Published Report
- Date of Issue
- 1996-10
- Publisher
- NPS Pacific West Regional Office
- Units
- GOGA , PRSF , PWR
- Keywords
- beautification, boundary wall, California, cannons, garrison post, Major Jones, Masonry, military occupation, Sand Dunes, wooded reserve
- Subjects
- CRIS-CL: 725234: Presidio of San Francisco