Bay View Police Station

 Posted by on April 14, 2019
Apr 142019
 

1676/1678 Newcomb
Bayview

Old Bayview Police Station

This old Bay View Police Station, with stables in the back, was built in 1911 in the Roman Renaissance style at a cost of approximately $22,000.

Designed by city architect Alfred I. Coffey, it is sadly, not on any historical listing and is now in private hands.

This police station was closed in the 1930s and consolidated with another Coffey designed station, the Potrero Hill Police Station at 2300 Third Street. The Potrero Hill station opened in 1915 at a cost of over $12,000. It too had a stable in the back and for a brief time was called South East Station.

Coffey also designed the North End Police Station, now in private hands.

Potrero Hill Police Station now abandoned

Potrero Hill Police Station

Coffey was born in San Francisco in 1866.  In 1910 he was appointed city architect and was responsible for designing schools, police stations,  and hospitals. One of his more notable hospital projects was Southern Pacific Harkness Memorial Hospital (no longer existing). At the time of his death on November 11, 1931, he was the architect of the new Cancer Unit and Psychopathic Building of the City Hospital Group, what is now San Francisco General.

Coffey shared an office with Martin Rist at 785 Market Street.  They are responsible for the historically protected University Mound Old Ladies Home at 350 University Street.

Together they also designed the Taraval Police Station, which is still in use as a Police Station today.

The highly altered Stable Building can be seen in the back yard

The highly altered Stable Building can be seen in the back yard

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