Image: Cyark presidio officers club
Description: Elevation of the San Francisco Presidio Officers' Club, Plaza de las Armas, California. Created from photo-textured laser scan data. Because El Presidio was always a military base, much of the underlying foundational structures and archaeological remains from its earliest periods remain intact under the present constructions and grounds. The present-day Officers’ Club, 188 feet by 119 feet in plan, is located in the southwest corner of the Plaza de las Armas, the central quadrangle of the original Spanish colonial fort. The old adobe fort, currently the oldest surviving Spanish colonial military building in California, was never demolished to make room for new construction. Rather, the American military expanded it during two different construction periods; first in 1847, by the Mexico who had controlled El Presidio since 1822, then later in 1884-1885 when the central assembly hall was built. Today, the appearance of the front facade of the fort primarily reflects additional remodeling from the 1930s in the Spanish Colonial Revival style, with original adobe walls enclosed under metal lath and plaster. A large rear addition to the building was built during the 1970s in the Mission Revival style seen at Fort Winfield Scott.
Title: Cyark presidio officers club
Credit: http://archive.cyark.org/elevation-of-the-officers-club-plaza-de-las-armas-created-from-photo-textured-laser-scan-data-media
Author: CyArk, http://archive.cyark.org
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