According to the Hotel and Visitors Bureau the Haight is the second most popular pedestrian tourist destination in SF (Pier 39 is first) and yet, with exception of 3-days-a-week walking tours or my own historical star map, there is precious little that presents its history to this eager public.

Over the years there have been many suggestions for potential Haight Ashbury Museum locations (the Library Park Branch, various stores, 710 Ashbury) but the value of real estate or the commitment to other needs have precluded its establishment. However, there exists a local building (Stanyan betw. Beulah & Frederick) which is already a City Landmark, is unoccupied (and slowly deteriorating), and has no specified place in the GGP Master Plan:

Emergency Aid Station
• accessibility and general
upgrade needed
• new facility for
recreational activities
• landmark structure

It would take some extensive upgrading of the unreinforced masonry to contemporary earthquake standards but perhaps an assessment could be made by the City Engineer's Office.

Park Emergency Aid Station. This structure
served as a San Francisco Department of Public
Health emergency hospital from 1902 until 1978.
It continued as an ambulance station until 1991.
The building will require extensive work for
accessibility and seismic improvements to make it
suitable for a new use. If the improvements can be
made, the structure may provide a new location for
recreational activities. Another possible use would
be as offices for a park conservancy organization.

www.noehill.com/sf/landmarks/sf201.asp



Landmark #201
NAME
Emergency Aid Station
RATING...BUILT...STATUS ...CONDITION
Medium......1902.....Landmark ...Poor.......
...................................PRESENT
FOOTAGE...REVENUE...USE...RATING...UPGRD COST

2,733.........Possible......Storage.....N/A.........N/A