{"nrhp_refnum":"66000229","name":"C.A. THAYER (Additional Documentation)","other_names":["C.A. THAYER (Lumber Schooner)"],"category":"structure","location":{"address":"San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park/Hyde Street Pier","address_restricted":false,"city":"San Francisco","county":"San Francisco","state":"CA","lat":37.80906837100008,"lon":-122.42159808599996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1966-11-13","is_nhl":true,"nhl_designated_date":"1966-11-13","areas_of_significance":["Industry","Commerce","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["national"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A three-masted wooden sailing schooner, built in 1895 at Fairhaven on Humboldt Bay, California, by Hans Ditley Bendixsen. She is exhibited at the Hyde Street Pier, San Francisco Maritime Park, in San Francisco.","why_significant":"The C. A. Thayer is described as the last surviving example afloat of 122 sailing schooners designed for the 19th-century Pacific Coast lumber trade. She was typical of the vessels that carried redwood and fir lumber from coastal mills to San Francisco and other ports. She later served the Alaskan salmon and Bering Sea codfish trades, and became the last operating commercial schooner on the Pacific Coast.","narrative":"Built in 1895 at Fairhaven on Humboldt Bay, the C. A. Thayer is a three-masted wooden schooner, 156 feet long, constructed of Douglas fir by Hans Ditley Bendixsen. She was designed to haul about 575,000 board feet of lumber, much of it on deck, and a small crew could handle her rig. The schooner carried lumber from Washington mills to San Francisco and Southern California, later served Alaskan salmon salteries from 1912 to 1924, and then fished for cod in the Bering Sea until 1950. By then she was the last operating commercial schooner on the Pacific Coast. Described as the last survivor afloat of 122 schooners built for the Pacific Coast lumber trade, she was purchased by the State of California in the 1950s, repaired in Puget Sound, and sailed to San Francisco. She was named a National Historic Landmark in 1966 and is now displayed at Hyde Street Pier.","period_of_significance":"1800-1899, 1900-","architect_builder":"Hans Ditley Bendixsen","architectural_style":null,"criteria":[],"status_note":"Restored to her original 1895 appearance except for the foc'sle added during the codfishing years; on exhibit at the Hyde Street Pier. Condition listed as good.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:31.474515-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_CA/66000229.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/66000229/25a54b082e-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/66000229/25a54b082e-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Jet Lowe","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:CA_Thayer_HAER_041940.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Jet Lowe</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:CA_Thayer_HAER_041940.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/123861065","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C.A._Thayer_(1895)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1022336"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/california/san-francisco/c-a-thayer-additional-documentation-66000229/"}