Historic Structure Report, Historic Data: Fort Point
Bearss EC. 1973. Historic Structure Report, Historic Data: Fort Point. Historic Structure Report. Department of the Interior, National Park Service
Fort Point is a masonry seacoast fortification constructed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineer in 1853, overlooking the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco. The Fort was built in the Army's traditional "Third System" style of military architecture (a standard adopted in the 1820s), and would be the only fortification of this design constructed west of the Mississippi River. This report has been prepared to satisfy the research needs as enumerated in Historical Resource Study Proposal FOPO-H-1, Historic Structure Report, Fort Point, and to meet other needs of the Service as indicated by the Superintendent, Fort Point National Historic Site. In addition to a structural history of the casemated masonry work, this report details the construction history of Batteries East and West, the De Russy and Elliot Seawalls, and no longer extant structures associated with Fort Point. Also found in this report is detailed data on the armament of these works for the years 1861-1900. Fort Point will be stabilized and partially restored, refurnished, and armed to interpret the construction, occupation, and defense of a Third System masonry fort. A secondary theme will be the defense of San Francisco Bay and the Presidio as a military command post and base.
- Type
- Published Report
- Authors
- Bearss, Edwin
- Date of Issue
- 1973-03
- Publisher
- Department of the Interior, National Park Service
- Units
- FOPO , HIST , PWR
- Keywords
- Civil War, coast, fort, Gold Rush, masonry, military, Third System
- Subjects
- CRIS-HS: 000362: Fort Point , CRIS-HS: 000365: Fort Point Battery East , CRIS-HS: 000364: Fort Point Seawall