{"nrhp_refnum":"04001137","name":"Golden Gate Park","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Bounded by Fulton St., Stanyan St., Fell St., Baker St., Oak St., Lincoln Way and The Great Highway","address_restricted":false,"city":"San Francisco","county":"San Francisco","state":"CA","lat":37.76913077300003,"lon":-122.47964028757195,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2004-10-15","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Landscape Architecture","Entertainment/Recreation","Social History"],"significance_levels":["national"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Golden Gate Park is a 1,017-acre urban park in western San Francisco, California, stretching about 3.5 miles from the center of the city to the Pacific Ocean. It was laid out from a plan by William Hammond Hall beginning in 1870-1871.","why_significant":"The nomination presents the park as a picturesque, Olmsted-influenced designed landscape, created by turning windswept sand dunes into a forest and meadows linked by curving roads and paths. It was conceived as a single unified work, with a high degree of integrity. Its many gardens, lakes, monuments and recreation facilities reflect over a century of development under superintendents Hall and John McLaren.","narrative":"Golden Gate Park covers 1,017 acres on the western side of San Francisco, running about 3.5 miles from the city center to the Pacific Ocean. Surveyed in 1870 by William Hammond Hall on windblown sand dunes known as the Outside Lands, it was transformed through a major reclamation effort into a man-made forest of more than 30,000 trees, broken by open meadows and linked by curving roads and paths. Hall served as the first superintendent, and John McLaren carried the plan forward for 53 years after 1889. The design follows the picturesque tradition influenced by Frederick Law Olmsted Sr. Lakes, gardens, the Conservatory of Flowers, the Music Concourse, the Japanese Tea Garden, monuments, and 1930s public works facilities were added over time. The park was listed as a historic district with 135 contributing resources. Its original spatial layout of forest, meadow and road system remains largely intact, and visitors still picnic, stroll, boat and play sports much as earlier generations did.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"William Hammond Hall (original plan and first superintendent); John McLaren (superintendent 1889-1943)","architectural_style":"Mid-late 19th Century picturesque park landscape; Olmsted-influenced landscape","criteria":[],"status_note":"Remains in use as a public park; the framework of roads, forest and meadows survives. The de Young Museum and California Academy of Sciences were replacing their historic structures at the time of the form.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:29.765751-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_CA/04001137.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/04001137/45c5068835-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/04001137/45c5068835-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 2.0","author":"Dennis G. Jarvis","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:California-06241_-_In_front_of_museum_(20449897948).jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Dennis G. Jarvis</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 2.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:California-06241_-_In_front_of_museum_(20449897948).jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/123861132","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Gate_Park","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q635559"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/california/san-francisco/golden-gate-park-04001137/"}