PRESIDIO TRUST

San FranciscoCalifornia

Javier Acosta ClimentUS/ICOMOS intern

summer 2007

Javier Acosta ClimentUS/ICOMOS intern

summer 2007

THE SITETHE PRESIDIOSAN FRANCISCO

CALIFORNIA

Surface: 1491a (~600 hcts)

National Park Site (Golden Gate Recreation Area) since

1994

Ohlone territory (1000 years)

Military Post 1776-1994 Spanish, Mexican, United

States.

Host of many residents and diverse organizations

THE HOST ORGANIZATION

Javier Acosta ClimentUS/ICOMOS intern

summer 2007

THE PRESIDIO TRUSTBorn in 1996

Federal Agency

Purpose: preserve the natural, cultural, scenic, and recreational resources of the Presidio.

Responsibility: administration of the park’s interior lands and 700 buildings.

Staff: expertise in environmental science, historic preservation and restoration, operations and maintenance, landscape design, planning, resource management, real estate development, law….

THE WORK

Javier Acosta ClimentUS/ICOMOS intern

summer 2007

Analysis of interior finishes

Mesa Room (Officer’s Club)

Christina Wallace (Senior Preservation Specialist of the Trust)

Dates of installation clarification and documentation

THE WORKSurvey of the room Conclusions

Historic Researching

Taking paint samples

Samples analysis with a microscope

Javier Acosta ClimentUS/ICOMOS intern

summer 2007

THE WORK

Final report: description of the work, methodology used, conclusions, maintenance recommendations, and drawings

Javier Acosta ClimentUS/ICOMOS intern

summer 2007

THE WORK

Javier Acosta ClimentUS/ICOMOS intern

summer 2007

4 different periods: Comandancia, early Victorian, late Victorian an Spanish revival

Materials: adobe, T&G board, burlap, canvas, dry wall…

62 samples taken and analyzed

THE WORK

Javier Acosta ClimentUS/ICOMOS intern

summer 2007

The Walt Disney Family Museum

Funston Av. Houses Foggy Bridge Winery Petit Baleen Swimming Pool School

Future Archaeology Laboratory

THE WORK

Javier Acosta ClimentUS/ICOMOS intern

summer 2007

Public Health Services Hospital

Nurses Quarters Arguello Gate Piers Barnard Hall

Crissy FieldPlanet Granite Gym

THE WORK

Javier Acosta ClimentUS/ICOMOS intern

summer 2007

Officer’s Club

International Center to End Violence

Electrical Station

Queen Anne´s Houses Incinerator

Officers Quarters

THE WORK

Javier Acosta ClimentUS/ICOMOS intern

summer 2007

Log Cabin Main Post

Bay School SenSpa Landscape rehabilitation

THE WORK

Page and Turnbull ARG

Javier Acosta ClimentUS/ICOMOS intern

summer 2007

It has been very interesting to see how the Presidio Trust, as a public organization, is managing all of its heritage. How it deals with developers, contractors, private architectural firms and all kind of different tenants, achieving its main purpose of safeguarding a public land, with a very long and interesting history.

LEISURE TIME

Alcatraz Trip

de Young Museum

with Trini Rico former US/ICOMOS Intern

Sonoma Trip

Fort Ross Trip

San Francisco City Hall visit

Javier Acosta ClimentUS/ICOMOS intern

summer 2007

LEISURE TIME

Javier Acosta ClimentUS/ICOMOS intern

summer 2007

Marin County Civic Center Visit

Jewish Museum under construction visit

Aloha Festival Pasados Presidio Foundation Commemoration

Sonoma Trip

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Javier Acosta ClimentUS/ICOMOS intern

summer 2007

with Christina Wallace with the staff of the Archaeology Laboratory

with the San Francisco

I would like to thank particularly Christina Wallace, Sannie Osborn, Eric Blind, Liz Clevenger Hans Barnaal, Katie Ahern, Rob Wallace and the rest of the Presidio Trust staff for that wonderful experience.