Mare Island Historic District
- NRHP Name: Mare Island Historic District(Boundary Increase)
- Address: Sears Point Rd
- Vicinity: Roughly bounded by Mare Island Straight, Causeway St, Cedar Ave, Mesa Rd, Ribeiro Rd and Tyler Rd
| Place | Type | AsNotedIn | Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Place | Type | AsNotedIn | Area |
| Mare Island Naval Shipyard, Drydock No 1 |
| Y/M/D | Person | Association | Description | Composition | Food | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Y/M/D | Person | Association | Description | Composition | Food | Event |
| 1852/07/13 | John D Sloat | Work | Commodores JD Sloat and C Ringgold, Simon F Blunt and William PS Sanger (former overseer of construction of Drydock Number 1, Norfolk) recommend Mare island to be developed as a US Naval Yard. | |||
| 1854/09/15 | David Farragut | Work | Commander Farragut arrives at Mare Island to supervise the building of the Mare Island Navy Yard near San Francisco in San Pablo Bay. | |||
| 1865/07/01 | Dr Phineas Jonathan Horwitz | Work | Dr Horwitz is appointed Chief of the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery of the US Navy, with the relative rank of Commodore, and will serve in this position until 1 July 1869. Achievements include the new Naval Hospitals at Philadelphia and Mare Island, CA. | |||
| 1895/02/00 | Union Iron Works | Naval Architect | Commissioned in February, Olympia departs the Union Iron Works yard in San Francisco and steams inland to the US Navy's Mare Island Naval Shipyard at Vallejo. When outfitting is completed, Captain John J Read will take command. | |||
| 1917/03/00 | Lothar Witzke | Saboteur | Barges loaded with munitions explode - killing 6 people, wounding 31 and destroying port facilities. Agents of US Military Intelligence tied the blast to roving German saboteur Lothar Witzke, who was caught and imprisoned in 1918. | |||
| 1996/04/01 | After the construction of over 500 naval vessels and the overhauling more than 1000 other boats, Mare Island Naval Shipyard is decommissioned on April Fool's Day. | |||||
| 2011/06/00 | Paul Thomas Anderson | Director | In early June, Paul T Anderson begins shooting scenes for "The Master" at in Vallejo and Sacramento, CA. Filming on Mare Island for a month, they shot in a wing of the old hospital and the admiral's mansion. | The Master (2012 film) |
| Particulars for Mare Island Historic District: | |
|---|---|
| Cultural Affiliation | American Military |
| Area of Significance | Architecture |
| Criteria | Architecture-Engineering |
| Funerary | Cemetery |
| Area of Significance | Engineering |
| Criteria | Exemplar |
| Owner | Federal |
| Architectural Style | Greek Revival |
| Sight Category | Historic District |
| Historic Use | Hospital |
| Criteria | Information Potential |
| Historic Use | Institutional housing |
| Architectural Style | Late 19th and 20th century revivals |
| Area of Significance | Military |
| Level of Significance | National |
| Historic Use | Naval Facility |
| Historic Use | Park |
| Architectural Style | Queen Anne Style |
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