Fort Mason

Local nameFort Mason
LocationSan Francisco, United States

Fort Mason, in San Francisco, California originated as a coastal defense site during the American Civil War. The nucleus of the property was owned by John C. Frémont and disputes over compensation by the United States continued into 1968. In 1882 the defenses were named for Richard Barnes Mason, a military governor before statehood. Fort Mason became the headquarters for an Army command that included California and the Hawaiian Islands from 1904 to 1907. In 1912 the Army began building a port facility with piers and warehouses to be a home base for ships of the Army Transport Service serving Alaska, Hawaii, the Philippines and other Pacific Army posts and focus of Army supply for the Pacific.

On 6 May 1932 that port facility was designated the San Francisco Port of Embarkation, modeled on the New York Port of Embarkation which supplied U.S. Army forces in World War I, to serve the Pacific.

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Opening hours

Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture
Mon - Fri: 9 am - 5 pm

More information and contact

Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Mason

Official website http://www.fortmason.org

Phone +1 345–7500

Coordinates 37°48'21.448" N -122°25'44.625" E

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