Know This Place
37.7584, −122.3896 A locator map appears here once a Mapbox token is configured.

1060 Tennessee Street

Dogpatch · San Francisco, CA 94107

  • Built 1900
  • Building
  • 2 stories
  • Zoned P
  • District 10
  • Historic status: historic resource
  • City landmark (Article 10)
  • Individually listed on the National Register
37.7584, −122.3896 Street View appears here once a Google Maps embed key is configured.
29,999 sq ftLot area
  1. 1867

    The Outside Lands Committee set this parcel aside for a school, one of several it reserved in outlying sections of the city.

    Dogpatch Historic Context Statement, adopted 2001
  2. 1877

    The San Francisco School Department built an eight-room frame school facing Minnesota Street, replacing the Potrero School of 1865 at Napa and Kentucky Streets.

    Dogpatch Historic Context Statement, adopted 2001
  3. 1895

    An addition facing Tennessee Street. The school was renamed for the superintendent of Union Iron Works, who gave money towards its construction and equipment.

    Dogpatch Historic Context Statement, adopted 2001
  4. 1899

    Schoolchildren from the school escorted President McKinley to the laying of the keel of the USS Ohio at Union Iron Works.

    Dogpatch Historic Context Statement, adopted 2001

Not yet documented: the developer, the early tenants and the date of the last recorded sale. The assessor's roll gives 1900; the 2001 Dogpatch survey dates the Tennessee Street addition to 1895 and the school it replaced to 1877. Submit an update