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Pier 26 (San Francisco, California)
The existing historic Pier 26 in San Francisco is located on the Embarcadero with its entrance directly under the San Francisco – Oakland Bay Bridge, several blocks southeast of the Ferry Building. The pier is a single story gable timber structure that rests partially on concrete retainage but mostly on pier foundations on the bay. Its surface area measures approximately , currently used for parking and storage. Its front facade along the Embarcadero is of historic significance.
==History==
By the middle of the 19th century, San Francisco's waterfront was little more than a crumbling mass of abandoned ships and piers. Many of the people who traveled to California to find fame and fortune in the gold rush simply abandoned their boats on the waterfront. In 1863, The Board of State Harbor Commissioners commissioned a sea wall to extend around the San Francisco's bay shore, which exists today as the Embarcadero.
Pier 26 was developed from existing piers and wharfs at its current location, along with the rest of the Port of San Francisco. After the fire and earthquake of 1906, the piers were modernized and the Port of San Francisco adopted its current system of numbered piers with odd numbered piers to the north of the Ferry Building, and even numbered piers to the south. Pier 26 was leased to the American-Hawaii Steamship Company until the Port fell into disuse in the 1950s. Today, all commercial shipping has moved across the bay to the Port of Oakland, and the pier is now used for parking and storage.〔(SFGov: Port of San Francisco: History )〕
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