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24 December 2011
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24 December 2011
Fireboat Guardian Docked at Pier 22½
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26 April 2009
Fireboat Phoenix Celebrates
Opening Day of the Sailing Season
San Francisco Bay
(Click Photos to Zoom)
Engine Company No. 9 and Fireboat Company No. 1
Embarcadero At Harrison (Pier 22½)
Built 1915
The Fireboat House is a Renaissance Revival structure with Mission Revival elements. It was designed by Alfred A. Pyle of the State Board of Harbor Commissioners who also designed the Agriculture Building, and the bulkhead buildings of Piers 1½, 3, and 29. Pyle had previously worked under Willis Polk in the San Francisco office of D. H. Burnham & Co.
The Fireboat House is significant as San Francisco's only firehouse that serves the crews of her fireboats. It is a rare instance of cooperation between the Port and the Fire Department, because it is on Port property but controlled and staffed by the SFFD. It is connected to the berths of the City's two fireboats, Phoenix and Guardian, and thus it displays one of the surviving working maritime activities along the Embarcadero, a reminder of San Francisco's important maritime history.
The interior displays a rare integrity of iron spiral staircase, working brass fire poles, and intact tongue-and-groove surfaces for walls and ceilings. The exterior looks exactly like its 1916 photograph.
From San Francisco Planning Commission Resolution 14775 adopted January 28, 1999.
Vintage San Francisco Firehouses
- Engine Company No. 1, 451 Pacific Avenue
- Engine Company No. 2, 460 Bush Street
- Engine Company No. 7, 3160 16th Street
- Engine Company No. 8, 1648 Pacific Avenue
- Engine Company No. 9 and Fire Boat House, Pier 22½, Embarcadero at Harrison
- Engine Company No. 13, 1458 Valencia Street
- Engine Company No. 14, 1051 McAllister Street
- Engine Company No. 16, 909 Tennessee Street
- Engine Company No. 21, 1152 Oak Street
- Engine Company No. 22, 1348 10th Avenue
- Engine Company No. 23, 3022 Washington Street
- Engine Company No. 24, 100 Hoffman Avenue
- Engine Company No. 27, 52 Waller Street
- Engine Company No. 30, 1757 Waller Street
- Engine Company No. 31, 1088 Green Street
- Engine Company No. 33, 117 Broad Street
- Engine Company No. 37, 2501 25th Street
- Engine Company No. 40, 1249 Clayton Street
- Engine Company No. 43, 724 Brazil Avenue
- Engine Company No. 44, 3816 22nd Street
- Engine Company No. 47, 1298 Girard Street
- Engine Company No. 48, 798 Wisconsin Street
- Dennis T Sullivan Memorial Fire Chief's Home
- Pumping Station No. 2
- Underwriter's Fire Patrol, 147 Natoma Street
GuardiansofTheCity.org is the definitive Web guide to San Francisco firehouses, both vintage and modern.