{"nrhp_refnum":"91000561","name":"APOLLO (Storeship)","other_names":["Apollo (Shipwreck site)"],"category":"site","location":{"address":"NW corner of Sacramento and Battery Sts.","address_restricted":false,"city":"San Francisco","county":"San Francisco","state":"CA","lat":37.79438672600003,"lon":-122.40007852899998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1991-05-16","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Commerce","Historic - Non-Aboriginal","Transportation","Maritime History"],"significance_levels":["national"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Archeological site of the 1831 packet ship Apollo, converted to a storeship on the San Francisco waterfront in 1850 and burned in 1851. Her buried remains lie beneath the former Federal Reserve Bank building at Battery and Sacramento Streets in downtown San Francisco.","why_significant":"The nomination argues Apollo is nationally significant through her link to the California Gold Rush and as one of the best-documented of roughly 150 San Francisco storeships. Her surviving lower hull, wharf pilings and artifacts could yield information on early 19th-century New England shipbuilding and on storeship use. She also had earlier careers in the coastal and transatlantic packet trades.","narrative":"Beneath the former Federal Reserve Bank building in downtown San Francisco lie the buried remains of Apollo, a wooden packet ship built in 1831 at Portsmouth, New Hampshire. She carried cargo and passengers in the transatlantic and Southern coastal trades before sailing from New York to San Francisco in 1849 with goods and passengers bound for the gold fields. After her crew deserted, she was beached in 1850 and enclosed in a two-story frame structure, serving as a warehouse and office space. A small adjoining saloon sold coffee, pie and doughnuts. Fill gradually surrounded her, and the fire of May 4, 1851 burned her to the waterline. Construction exposed parts of the hull in 1901, 1921 and 1925, and the site has been undisturbed since. The lower hull, wharf pilings and artifacts are believed to remain. The site was listed for its Gold Rush connections, maritime and commercial history, ship construction, and archeological potential.","period_of_significance":"1831-1851","architect_builder":"Samuel Badger (built at Portsmouth, New Hampshire, 1831, for John Haven and Robert Rice)","architectural_style":null,"criteria":["A","C","D"],"status_note":"Remains buried and never excavated; last exposed in 1925 and undisturbed since. Current function listed as vacant, not in use.","vacant_flag":true,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:27.612091-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_CA/91000561.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/91000561/d9fb6ae90a-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/91000561/d9fb6ae90a-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Unknown authorUnknown author","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Apollo_Warehouses,_Joseph_P._Beach,_storeship,_Sun_Lithographic_Establishment,_Moses_Yale_Beach.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Unknown authorUnknown author</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Apollo_Warehouses,_Joseph_P._Beach,_storeship,_Sun_Lithographic_Establishment,_Moses_Yale_Beach.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/123861029","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_(storeship)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4780274"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/california/san-francisco/apollo-storeship-91000561/"}