35 Onondaga Avenue

1. 1900

   Built.

2. November 6, 1928

   Voters passed Health and Hospital Bond No. 56 ($3.5 million), whose campaign promised an emergency hospital unit and health center for the Ocean Avenue–Alemany Boulevard district; it paid for the Alemany buildings.

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3. November 1930

   The City bought the site at Alemany Boulevard and Onondaga Avenue for an 'Outer Mission District Health Center', an alternative to the Ocean Avenue site named during the bond campaign.

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4. October 1931

   The Board of Supervisors approved the plan to build the Alemany emergency hospital and health center; it was first drawn as one two-story brick and tile building, with the hospital on the ground floor and the health center above.

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5. May 1932

   Construction of the Alemany buildings was only half finished in May 1932.

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6. 1933

   The Alemany Emergency Hospital (35 Onondaga, reinforced concrete with a brick and terra-cotta front) and the Alemany Health Center (45 Onondaga, wood-frame stucco) were built as a single city project, completed in 1933; the 1931 plan put the cost at $65,000, later revised upward by more than $17,000.

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7. August 16, 1933

   The Alemany Emergency Hospital opened and was dedicated, after a May opening was postponed while funds to equip it were found; Acting Director of Health Dr. Jacques Gray officiated.

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8. December 8, 1933

   Emergency appropriations passed by the Board of Supervisors kept the new Alemany Emergency Hospital open after the health director had threatened to close it; the Potrero Emergency Hospital closed instead.

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9. 1943

   During the Second World War the Alemany Emergency Hospital closed briefly for lack of doctors.

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10. 1978

    In summer 1978 Excelsior and Outer Mission neighbors organized by COMO (Communities of the Outer Mission Organization) occupied the Alemany Emergency Hospital for over a month and a half in a sit-in against its closure, sleeping there and trying to keep first-aid service going.

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11. 1978–1980

    After the emergency hospital closed, a restored city ambulance service ran out of the Alemany Emergency Hospital building, still there in May 1980.

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12. July 14, 1978

    The Director of Public Health announced the closing of the city's last emergency hospitals — Park, Harbor and Alemany.

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13. August 24, 1978

    San Francisco's free emergency hospital system, including the Alemany Emergency Hospital, was shut down despite the sit-in.

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14. 1982

    The Alemany buildings were leased to St. Luke's Hospital.

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15. Mar 2006

    Permit 200603086218 $$$ $58,000

    Reroofing.

16. 2010

    Ownership of the buildings passed from the Department of Public Health to the City's Real Estate Division, and they have stood vacant since.

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17. June 7, 2016

    Designated San Francisco Landmark No. 272, Alemany Emergency Hospital and Health Center.

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18. Jul 2020

    Issued Permit 202007160296 $$$ $50,490

    Reroofing.

19. Aug 2020

    Permit 202008202199 $$$ $2,400,000

    Tenant improvement. demolition of non-historic, non-load bearing partitions; addition of partitions, plumbing & electrical and mechanical equipment and the preservation of historic elements.

20. Sep 2020

    Withdrawn Permit 202009053625 $$$ $50,000

    Provide basic core and shell, lighting and power to 45 onondaga. install new 600a service upgrade. ti reference #2020-0820-2199.

21. Sep 2020

    Permit 202009285356 $$$ $2,834

    Fire only: add a fire alarm panel& communicator, smoke detector, pull station & notification devices shall connect to the facp. ref permit application 202008202199.

22. Dec 2020

    Permit 202012151082 $$$ $116,000

    Underground fire supply to fire sprinkler system (separate submittal, submitted as 2020-1216-1157 & 2021-0201-3727).

23. Dec 2020

    Permit 202012161157 $$$ $71,000

    Install new fire sprinkler system. ref arch permit # 2020 0820 2199. (sprinkler system for 45 onondaga is also on these plans as permit 2021-0201-3727.) underground for both addresses done under 2020-1215-1082.

1 cancelled permit is omitted. The assessor dates the building to 1900; Planning's historic resource survey records 1933.