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Photograph of Palace of Fine and Decorative Arts, Treasure Island
Photograph by William B. Dewey, HABS photographer, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Palace of Fine and Decorative Arts, Treasure Island

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008. 17 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1895.

From the record

“The Palace of Fine and Decorative Arts, also known as Building 3, on Treasure Island in San Francisco Bay, California, was an aircraft hangar constructed in 1938 for Pan American World Airways' trans-Pacific Clipper services, and then modified for the 1939-40 Golden Gate International Exposition. Building 3 was one of a pair of identical hangars built to house Pan American's flying boats at the south end of the island.”

Wikipedia article Palace of Fine and Decorative Arts, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 202 National Register listings published here for San Francisco County · listed in 2008 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. SE Side of California Ave. between Avenue F and Avenue I, Treasure Island, 94130
  • When was it listed? February 2008
  • Category. building
  • Census division. Downtown-Northeast Neighborhoods-Treasure Island
  • National Register reference number. 08000083 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Fires near this property

114 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 114 fires within 5 miles of Palace of Fine and Decorative Arts, Treasure Island between 1994 and 2020, burning about 258 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 8 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined72
Misuse of fire by a minor14
Recreation and ceremony10
Arson/incendiarism8
Smoking7
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Natural1
Equipment and vehicle use1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
6 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
6 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
6 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
5 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSan Mateo-Santa Cruz Unitnot named
30 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
3 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGolden Gate National Recreation AreaMEADOW
3 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCalifornia Department of Forestry & Fire Protectionnot named
27 September 1997Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGolden Gate National Recreation AreaWASHINGTON

Every fire recorded in San Francisco County

Maps showing this location

17 surveys

United States Geological Survey topographic sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the coordinate the National Park Service records for this property, then testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.

Listed places nearby

6 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Hall of Transportation, Treasure Island0.2 miles2008
Administration Building, Treasure Island0.3 miles2008
Senior Officers Quarters Historic District, Yerba Buena Island0.4 miles2008
Torpedo Storehouse-Torpedo (Mine) Assembly Building & Long Range Accuracy Storage Building0.5 miles2008
Quarters 1, Yerba Buena Island, Naval Training Station0.5 miles1991
Quarters 10 and Building 267, Yerba Buena Island0.5 miles2008

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 08000083 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
San Francisco CountyAll 202 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

  • Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
  • Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
  • How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
  • Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.