{"nrhp_refnum":"70000146","name":"Fort Point National Historic Site","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"N tip of San Francisco Peninsula on U.S. 101 and I 480","address_restricted":false,"city":"San Francisco","county":"San Francisco","state":"CA","lat":37.81052581900008,"lon":-122.47668768099999,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1970-10-16","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Military","Architecture","Maritime History"],"significance_levels":["national"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Fort Point, also called Old Fort Scott or Fort Winfield Scott, is a four-story masonry fort at the northern tip of the San Francisco Peninsula overlooking the Golden Gate. The present building dates from 1853 and was built by the U.S. Army Engineers.","why_significant":"The fort is a brick and granite coastal defense work designed after Fort Sumter, with walls up to 36 feet thick. It is noted for its masonry, spiral granite stairways and parabolic brick vaults. It also marks a long sequence of harbor defense on the site, from a Spanish adobe fort in 1794 to the Army post that was declared obsolete in 1905.","narrative":"Fort Point is a four-story masonry fort on the promontory at the northern end of the San Francisco Peninsula, facing the Golden Gate. Built in 1853 by the U.S. Army Engineers to protect San Francisco Harbor, it is made of brick trimmed with granite and was designed after Fort Sumter. Some walls are 36 feet thick. A courtyard is surrounded on three sides by galleries of tiered brick arches, and spiral granite stairways rise in three towers. An octagonal metal lighthouse sits atop the northwest tower. The fort held 149 guns in four tiers, and rainwater from the roof was channeled to a double cistern below. The site had earlier defenses, including the Spanish adobe Castillo de San Joaquin of 1794. The fort was declared obsolete in 1905, its batteries were abandoned in 1914, and the Golden Gate Bridge has overshadowed it since 1937. It was renamed Fort Winfield Scott after 1882 and became a national historic site in 1970.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"U.S. Engineers (architect and builder)","architectural_style":"Federal","criteria":[],"status_note":"Physical condition listed as fair; present use listed as none (not used). Owned by the National Park Service, with a proposed use as a museum and point of interest.","vacant_flag":true,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:31.533918-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_CA/70000146.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/70000146/7a5f50472e-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/70000146/7a5f50472e-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Kingofthedead","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:2016-08-02_Golden_Gate_Bridge_15.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Kingofthedead</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:2016-08-02_Golden_Gate_Bridge_15.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/123861118","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Point_National_Historic_Site","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1438659"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/california/san-francisco/fort-point-national-historic-site-70000146/"}