Transbay Terminal Archaeology
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At the October 2009 AC Transit Transbay Taskforce meeting, attendees were treated to a great historical presentation. Heather Price from William Self Associates presented facts and findings from the excavation process related to the construction of San Francisco's Temporary Transbay Terminal. She was followed with a presentation by Joyce Oishi on the salvage and historical preservation efforts within the existing Transbay Terminal. Several smaller items salvaged from the Terminal will be on display in an interpretive exhibit at the new Transbay Transit Center (not the Temporary Terminal), while larger items not taken by local museums will be properly recycled.
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- 2. Regulatory Guidelines Section 106 National Historic Preservation Act (1966) 106, – TJPA must take into account the effect of the program on historic properties – Historic Properties are buildings, structures, objects, sites, districts, or archaeological resources that are listed, or eligible for listing on the National Register of Historic Places Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) • Historic building recordation • Archaeological treatment p g plan ( (testing, data recovery) g, y)
- 3. Historic Context of the Transbay Transit Center Neighborhood
- 4. Prehistory P hi t Locations o oca o s of known prehistoric archaeological sites
- 6. Post Gold Rush View from Rincon Hill, 1851 Temporary Terminal (Block 2) Fremont Street
- 7. Post Gold Rush 1856 photo Folsom and Second streets
- 8. Second Street Cut 1869 view north
- 9. Industrial Development p Temporary Terminal Risdon Ironworks View from Harrison and Main 1872
- 10. 1906 Earthquake and Fire Third and Howard streets
- 11. Transportation T t ti Center 1930s
- 12. History of Land Formation
- 13. Archaeology A h l of the Region
- 14. 300 Spear Street Site 1906-1950s 8 to10 feet deep Brick warehouse foundation
- 15. 300 Spear Street Site 10 to 15 feet deep thick layer of coal coated floor Mineral Water 12
- 16. 300 Spear Street Lumber Yard ca.1886 Walkway Fallen fence Wood-lined well Photo 1872
- 17. 300 Spear Street Site Wood-lined Well ca. 1886 Child’s Shoe Marbles
- 18. 300 Spear Street Site Artifacts from Well
- 19. 300 Spear Street Site Ship-breaking yard 1850-1857 1850 1857 15 to 21 feet deep
- 20. 300 Spear Street Site Whaling Barque Candace, 1818-1855 28 feet deep
- 21. 300 Spear Street Site S pya d artifacts Shipyard a ac s pre-1857 Pulley Rope Pipe Spike
- 22. Emeryville Site Prehistoric spear points ca. 1,200 years old
- 24. Mitigation Measures in FEIS/EIR Cultural and historic resources are addressed in the Mitigation Measures adopted as p of g p part FEIS/EIR of April 2004 by: • Transbay Joint Powers Authority • Federal Transit Administration • Peninsula Corridor Joint Powers Board • City and County of San Francisco • San Francisco Redevelopment Agency
- 25. Memorandum of Agreement Memorandum of Agreement addressing historic and archaeological properties was executed in June 2004 by: • Federal Transit Administration • California State Historic Preservation Officer • Transbay Joint Powers Authority • City and County of San Francisco • Peninsula Corridor Joint Powers Board • California Department of Transportation
- 26. Salvageable Items • MOA requires interpretive exhibit in new Transit Center • MOA requires salvageable items be offered to other interested agencies
- 27. Transbay Terminal y 1939 photo courtesy of Paul C. Trimble Collection published in The Bay Bridge Arcadia Publishing, 2005
- 28. The Present
- 29. Salvageable Items g Documenting Salvageable Items • Archival research • 1993 historical assessment report by Caltrans • Site visits with agency staff, historians, architects • Documentation with photographs • Conversations with Terminal and Caltrans staff --------------------------------------------------------- Categorization of items • Architectural features • Artifacts/objects/ephemera • Historic • Non historic • Art
- 32. Historic Objects and Artifacts
- 33. CONTACT INFORMATION Transbay Joint Powers Authority 201 Mission Street, Suite 2100 San Francisco, CA 94105 (415) 597-4620 www.transbaycenter.org www transbaycenter org Robert Beck Senior Program Manager g g rbeck@transbaycenter.org