Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation Hospital

1. 1916

   Built by Bethlehem Steel as the Union Iron Works hospital, to modern standards and for a far larger workforce than the house it replaced. Designed by Frederick H.

   Showplace Square / Northeast Mission Historic Resource Survey, adopted 2011
2. February 5, 1918

   The hospital's chief physician was shot dead in the X-ray room by a shipyard worker, who then tried to kill himself.

   National Register of Historic Places nomination (draft), California Office of Historic Preservation
3. November 1918

   During the influenza pandemic the hospital treated 2,594 shipyard workers, set up a temporary isolation ward, and began inoculating all 18,000 of the company's San Francisco employees.

   National Register of Historic Places nomination (draft), California Office of Historic Preservation
4. 1931

   Bethlehem closed the hospital without ceremony after the yard lost a $16 million contract for four Panama Mail Line ships, and sold the building; a succession of short-lived private hospitals followed, and from 1938 a rest home.

   National Register of Historic Places nomination (draft), California Office of Historic Preservation
5. February 1948

   Henry J. Kaiser's Permanente Foundation bought the building and opened it late that year as the Permanente Harbor Hospital, the foundation's first full-service hospital in San Francisco, chosen for its nearness to the Bethlehem yard and the Hunters Point Naval Shipyard; it ran until 1958.

   National Register of Historic Places nomination (draft), California Office of Historic Preservation
6. November 12, 1958

   Kaiser Permanente sold the building, which became a 50-bed convalescent home, later the Potrero Convalescent Home and the Mission Bay Convalescent Hospital, until it closed in 2013.

   National Register of Historic Places nomination (draft), California Office of Historic Preservation
7. Feb 1982

   Permit 8201300 $$$ $3,000

   Additions alterations or repairs.

8. Jun 2015

   Permit 201506199464 $$$ $40,000

   Temporary earth shoring system to accomadate earthwork for new construction at 333 pennsylvania maher req.

9. Oct 2015

   Permit 201510301277 $$$ $50,000

   Change use from institution to residential. add rear deck & carport. demolition of all interior non-load bearing partition walls, all plumbing fixtures to be removed, interior structural walls and supports to be exposed.

10. Jun 2020

    Permit 202006138699 $$$ $50,000

    Installation of overhead wet sprinkler system including underground for 7 residential units.**maher n/a**.

11. Aug 2020

    Permit 202008252580 $$$ $20,000

    Provide & install fire alarm system in (7) residential units, low frequency horns in all bedrooms & living rooms. notification in common areas.

12. 2021

    The building was rehabilitated as seven apartments, its gutted interior rebuilt and its windows replaced.

    National Register of Historic Places nomination (draft), California Office of Historic Preservation
13. January 6, 2023

    Listed on the National Register of Historic Places as a rare company hospital in San Francisco and as Kaiser Permanente's first full-service hospital in the city.

    National Register of Historic Places nomination (draft), California Office of Historic Preservation

4 nominal $1 street-space or sidewalk permits are omitted from the timeline. 3 expired or cancelled permits are not shown. The statement's narrative dates the hospital building to 1916 in one passage and 1913 in another.