Glen Park BART Station

A Bosworth Street station appears in the engineering report to the BART district as a future stop between the 22nd Street and Ocean Avenue stations. It is in the system design by 1963 and its architectural design begins in 1965.

Condemnation began on about 25 houses and shops to clear the station site, over the protests of Glen Park residents.

BART accepted Peter Kiewit & Sons' bid of $3,423,939 for the station shell to Ernest Born's design, with production drawings by Corlett & Spackman; it was dug cut-and-cover from that September, and an elevator was added during construction under a new state disability-access law.

BART took by eminent domain two more properties at the southeast corner of Bosworth and Diamond Streets — the neighbourhood library and a Bank of America branch, spared in the first condemnation after residents protested — to build the plaza and a direct walk to the shops.

A soda fountain, a restaurant and other businesses, some in buildings of the 1920s, were demolished for the station, and the Glen Park Branch Library was moved from 2909 Diamond Street where it had stood five years.

With the concrete shell finished that March, Ernest Born drew the station's interior, with its marble mural laid by masons in the absence of an art budget, and Douglas Baylis designed the plaza with its olive grove and granite obelisk; both were built between July 1970 and May 1972.

The granite cylinder at the center of the circular plaza is hand-carved "Glen Park Station 1972", with the cardinal directions on its top.

The station opened with the rest of the San Francisco line. The American Institute of Architects had given the BART system a Collaborative Achievement in Architecture Award earlier that year.

The station is on the DOCOMOMO US/Northern California chapter's Northern California Modern register of notable Modern buildings in the Bay Area.

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places as a well-preserved Brutalist transit station and the work of Ernest Born, who also shaped BART's graphic identity and its first 33 stations.