{"nrhp_refnum":"75000172","name":"Haslett Warehouse","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"680 Beach St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"San Francisco","county":"San Francisco","state":"CA","lat":37.80733042700007,"lon":-122.42002402699995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1975-03-28","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Industry","Community Planning and Development","Commerce","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A four-story brick warehouse at 680 Beach Street in San Francisco, near Fisherman's Wharf, built in 1907-09 for the California Fruit Canner's Association and designed by William S. Mooser, Jr.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the building is a surviving example of the brick warehouses that once dominated the northern waterfront, many of which have been demolished. Its scale, proportion and plain brick expression set the character of the Fisherman's Wharf area. It is also tied to the Del Monte canning business and to the work of a prominent Bay Area architect.","narrative":"Rising four stories of brick at 680 Beach Street, this warehouse faces three streets and a courtyard near the Hyde Street cable car turntable in San Francisco. Built in 1907-09 for the California Fruit Canner's Association and designed by William S. Mooser, Jr., it stored peaches, asparagus, peas, cherries, tomatoes and apricots processed in the neighboring Cannery, later sold under the Del Monte label. Pilasters, raised brick cornices, a crenellated parapet, flattened-arch window heads and star-shaped tie rod plates give the walls their detail. Over the decades it held a relocated Italian monastery's numbered stones, goods for public storage, and, after World War II, bodies awaiting shipment to China. The state bought it in 1963. It was listed because it exemplifies the waterfront warehouses that once defined the area, and because it reflects the work of Mooser, San Francisco's first city architect.","period_of_significance":"20th Century (constructed 1907-09)","architect_builder":"William S. Mooser, Jr. (architect)","architectural_style":null,"criteria":[],"status_note":"Condition listed as fair and altered. The two upper floors are offices, and the lower floors are used for storage and shops by the state parks department.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:31.271865-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_CA/75000172.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/75000172/96e31849d1-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/75000172/96e31849d1-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Sanfranman59","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Haslett_Warehouse_(San_Francisco).jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Sanfranman59</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Haslett_Warehouse_(San_Francisco).jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/123861153","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q133479517"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/california/san-francisco/haslett-warehouse-75000172/"}