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Fontana Barracks
Used during the Spanish American War as
a troop center in San Francisco, Fontana Barracks was a temporarily
converted packing and storage plant for the Fontana Packing Company.
According to a curator at the Presidio Archives, this camp was
located in the Fontana warehouse building at Van Ness and North
Point Streets, east of and adjacent to Fort Mason. This is just
behind (south) of Aquatic Park. This was a 4 story brick warehouse,
apparently leased, which was used as a military warehouse up
into the 1960s. It is now the site of high rise apartment buildings
named Fontana Apartments
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