Aquatic Park Historic District

Infobox_nrhp | name =Aquatic Park Historic District
nrhp_type =nhld

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caption = San Francisco Maritime Museum.
location= San Francisco, California
locmapin = California
area =
architect= Works Progress Administration
architecture= Moderne
designated= May 28, 1987cite web|url=http://tps.cr.nps.gov/nhl/detail.cfm?ResourceId=1873&ResourceType=District
title=Aquatic Park Historic District |accessdate=2007-10-23|work=National Historic Landmark summary listing|publisher=National Park Service]
added = January 26, 1984cite web|url=http://www.nr.nps.gov/|title=National Register Information System|date=2007-01-23|work=National Register of Historic Places|publisher=National Park Service]
governing_body = NATIONAL PARK SERVICE
refnum=84001183

Aquatic Park Historic District is a building complex on the San Francisco Bay waterfront in San Francisco, California, United States. It is located within San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park and is itself a National Historic Landmark.

The district includes a "beach, bathhouse, municipal pier, restrooms, concessions stand, stadia, and two speaker towers".

It houses the San Francisco Maritime Museum in a Streamline Moderne (late Art Deco) building built as a public bathhouse. The building was originally built (starting in 1936) by the WPA as a public bathhouse, and its interior is decorated with fantastic and colorful murals.

The Steamship Room illustrates the technological evolution of maritime power from wind to steam, whilst the second floor displays include three photomurals of the early San Francisco waterfront, lithographic stones, scrimshaw and whaling guns. The third floor gallery is used for visiting exhibitions and is in 2005 exhibiting "Sparks", an exhibition of shipboard radio, radiotelephone, and radioteletype technology.

It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1987.citation|title=PDFlink| [http://pdfhost.focus.nps.gov/docs/NHLS/Text/84001183.pdf National Register of Historic Places Inventory-Nomination: Aquatic Park Historic District] |1.55 MiB |date=February 1, 1984 |author=James P. Delgado |publisher=National Park Service and PDFlink| [http://pdfhost.focus.nps.gov/docs/NHLS/Photos/84001183.pdf Accompanying 19 photos, exterior and interior, undated.] |1.28 MiB ] cite web|url=http://www.nps.gov/history/history/online_books/harrison/harrison29.htm |title="Architecture in the Parks: A National Historic Landmark Theme Study: Aquatic Park Historic District", by Laura Soullière Harrison |accessdate=2008-02-26|work=National Historic Landmark Theme Study|publisher=National Park Service]

The Maritime Museum is currently closed for renovation. It will reopen in 2009.

It is at the foot of Polk Street, and a minute's walk from the visitor center and Hyde Street Pier.

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