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Aquatic Park Historic District

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style, its interior is decorated with fantastic, colorful murals. The Steamship Room illustrates the evolution of maritime technology from wind to steam, and there are displays of lithographic stones, scrimshaw, and whaling guns and photo-murals of San Francisco's early waterfront. A visitors gallery
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In front of the Maritime Museum is a man-made lagoon on the site of the former Black Point Cove. To the west is the horseshoe-shaped Municipal Pier. The lagoon is fronted by a sandy beach and a stepped concrete seawall. To the south is a grassy area known as Victorian Park, which contains the Hyde
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Street cable car turnaround. Hyde Street Pier, though part of the San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park, is not part of Aquatic Park Historic District.
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The park is at the foot of Polk Street and a minute's walk from the visitor center and Hyde Street Pier. Its beach is one of the cleanest in the state.
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The district includes a beach, bathhouse, municipal pier, restrooms, concessions stand, stadia, and two speaker towers.
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The Historic District was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1987, and added to the
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Black Point Cove was named for Black Point, which juts into the bay between
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Event venues on the National Register of Historic Places in California
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The District's San Francisco Maritime Museum building was built as a
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Location of Aquatic Park Historic District in San Francisco County
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In the park near the corner of Beach and Larkin streets is
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Accompanying 19 photos, exterior and interior, undated.
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Black Point Beach

San Francisco, California
37°48′23″N 122°25′26″W / 37.8063°N 122.424°W / 37.8063; -122.424
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. National Historic Landmark District
California Historical Landmark
San Carlos
Aquatic Park Historic District is located in San Francisco County
National Historic Landmark
San Francisco Bay
San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park
bathhouse
WPA
streamline moderne
National Register of Historic Places
California Historical Landmark
packet ship
San Carlos
San Francisco Bay
North Beach
Marina District
View of the lagoon at sunset
From left to right: San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park, Telegraph Hill and Coit Tower, Fisherman's Wharf, Downtown San Francisco, Russian Hill and Aquatic Park Historic District
San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park
Telegraph Hill
Coit Tower
Fisherman's Wharf
Downtown San Francisco
Russian Hill

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