Repairing the Adobe Walls in the Presidio Officers' Club

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Published 2012-05-22
No place in the Presidio is more beloved than the historic Officers' Club, located on the Main Post. Over the course 235 years, the building has played many roles. It served as offices and living quarters for the fort commander, as a post headquarters, as officers' quarters, and as a social center for the Spanish, Mexican, and United States armies. With each new use the building has grown and evolved, like the Presidio itself.

Today, the oldest and most revered building in the Presidio (and one of the two oldest in San Francisco) is undergoing a comprehensive historic rehabilitation that will revive its original grandeur and restore it as a focal point for visitors and as a venue for cultural events.

This video describes the process of repairing the historic adobe walls inside the Officers' Club.

The Officers' Club will reopen as a community and social hub housing the Presidio Heritage Center in 2013. The project is expected to receive a LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) gold certification from the U.S. Green Building Council.

This film is by Melissa Peabody. Copyright 2012, Presidio Trust
All Comments (6)
  • @eugeniotapia6765
    Pat Taylor is a master adobe renovator. wish I could hire him full time !
  • @mimamima2
    My home is made of adobe , it was built in 1910 in the 1940s the school burnt down and my home was turned into a school until the new school was built the elderly man that sold us the house said he went to first grade in my bedroom, cool. In my property we still have the water tank that supplied the water for the town,  wow I found that to be awesome,  . He told us that when Pancho Villa would ride with his man to close to town the church bells would ring and all the town people would run to the hills and wait until  the soldiers passed by and were gone, wow. Sadly  house shakes because of the train being so close it shakes all my house I can hear it cracking. The house is cracking real bad. I pray to God at night when the train passes so the roof will not fall on top of me. It is to expensive to repair so I just pray.
  • @tucsonrambler
    Wow, amazing preservation. I own an adobe home and 😍 it. Nice presentation , thanks