Archaeology
October 13, 2009

Regulatory
Guidelines
Section 106 National Historic Preservation Act (1966)
106,
– TJPA must take into account the effect of the program on historic
properties
– Historic Properties are buildings, structures, objects, sites, districts, or
archaeological resources that are listed, or eligible for listing on the
National Register of Historic Places
Memorandum of Agreement (MOA)
• Historic building recordation
• Archaeological treatment p
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(testing, data recovery)
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Historic Context
of the
Transbay Transit Center
Neighborhood

Prehistory
P hi t
Locations o
oca o s of
known prehistoric
archaeological
sites

Spanish
Period
from 1776

Post Gold Rush
View from Rincon Hill, 1851
Temporary Terminal (Block 2)
Fremont Street

Post Gold Rush
1856 photo
Folsom and Second streets

Second Street Cut
1869 view north

Industrial Development
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Temporary Terminal
Risdon Ironworks
View from Harrison and Main 1872

1906 Earthquake and
Fire
Third and Howard streets

Transportation
T t ti
Center
1930s

History of Land Formation

Archaeology
A h l
of the
Region

300 Spear Street Site
1906-1950s
8 to10 feet deep
Brick warehouse foundation

300 Spear Street Site
10 to 15 feet deep
thick layer of coal coated floor
Mineral Water
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300 Spear Street
Lumber Yard
ca.1886
Walkway
Fallen fence
Wood-lined well
Photo 1872

300 Spear Street Site
Wood-lined Well
ca. 1886
Child’s Shoe
Marbles

300 Spear Street Site
Artifacts from Well

300 Spear Street Site
Ship-breaking yard
1850-1857
1850 1857
15 to 21 feet deep

300 Spear Street Site
Whaling Barque Candace, 1818-1855
28 feet deep

300 Spear Street Site
S pya d artifacts
Shipyard a ac s
pre-1857
Pulley Rope
Pipe Spike

Emeryville Site
Prehistoric spear points
ca. 1,200 years old

Salvageable Items

Mitigation Measures in FEIS/EIR
Cultural and historic resources are addressed
in the Mitigation Measures adopted as p of
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FEIS/EIR of April 2004 by:
• Transbay Joint Powers Authority
• Federal Transit Administration
• Peninsula Corridor Joint Powers Board
• City and County of San Francisco
• San Francisco Redevelopment Agency

Memorandum of Agreement
Memorandum of Agreement addressing
historic and archaeological properties was
executed in June 2004 by:
• Federal Transit Administration
• California State Historic Preservation Officer
• Transbay Joint Powers Authority
• City and County of San Francisco
• Peninsula Corridor Joint Powers Board
• California Department of Transportation

Salvageable Items
• MOA requires interpretive exhibit in new
Transit Center
• MOA requires salvageable items be
offered to other interested agencies

Transbay Terminal
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1939 photo courtesy of
Paul C. Trimble
Collection
published in
The Bay Bridge
Arcadia Publishing, 2005

The Present

Salvageable Items
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Documenting Salvageable Items
• Archival research
• 1993 historical assessment report by Caltrans
• Site visits with agency staff, historians, architects
• Documentation with photographs
• Conversations with Terminal and Caltrans staff
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Categorization of items
• Architectural features
• Artifacts/objects/ephemera
• Historic
• Non historic
• Art

Historic Architectural Features

Historic Objects and Artifacts

CONTACT INFORMATION
Transbay Joint Powers Authority
201 Mission Street, Suite 2100
San Francisco, CA 94105
(415) 597-4620
www.transbaycenter.org
www transbaycenter org
Robert Beck
Senior Program Manager
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rbeck@transbaycenter.org