Torpedo Storehouse
USA /
California /
Albany /
World
/ USA
/ California
/ Albany
World / United States / California
warehouse, NRHP - National Register of Historic Places, historic landmark, 1891_construction
Building 262 was built in 1891 as part of the Army Engineer Torpedo Station, and it is the oldest building on the island. It was built by the renowned architect Ernest Leslie Ransome and is one of America’s earliest examples of reinforced concrete construction. In 1891, the Army began construction of a facility to assemble and store floating mines-which they called torpedoes. These would be placed into the Bay via cable if needed for defense. The Torpedo Station was abandoned in the 1930s and transferred to the US Navy in the 1960s. It now belongs to the City of San Francisco.
www.noehill.com/sf/landmarks/nat2008000086.asp
www.dot.ca.gov/dist4/yerbabuena/aybi_military.htm
www.nytimes.com/2012/03/23/us/a-building-ruin-on-yerba-...
www.scribd.com/doc/86222593/Torpedo-Storehouse-National...
www.noehill.com/sf/landmarks/nat2008000086.asp
www.dot.ca.gov/dist4/yerbabuena/aybi_military.htm
www.nytimes.com/2012/03/23/us/a-building-ruin-on-yerba-...
www.scribd.com/doc/86222593/Torpedo-Storehouse-National...
Nearby cities:
Coordinates: 37°48'52"N 122°21'33"W
- Black Diamond Mines Regional Preserve 45 km
- Jack London State Historic Park 63 km
- Fort Ross State Historic Park 113 km
- Fort Ord (site) 133 km
- Valley Springs, California 140 km
- Auburn, California 166 km
- Georgetown, California 180 km
- Foresthill, California 187 km
- Squaw Valley Ski Resort 238 km
- Donner Memorial State Park 245 km
- US Coast Guard Sector San Francisco 0.6 km
- Clipper Cove 0.6 km
- Yerba Buena Island 0.7 km
- Pan American Clipper Base 0.8 km
- Treasure Island Job Corps Center 1.1 km
- Bay Bridge (New Eastern Section) 1.2 km
- San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge 1.3 km
- Treasure Island 1.3 km
- BART Transbay Tube 1.4 km
- San Francisco Bay 13 km