Structure Type: built works - industrial buildings - warehouses

Designers: [unspecified]

Dates: constructed 1925

2 stories

Oakland, CA

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The Knapp Metal Barrel Company Warehouse was located in Oakland's westside port facilities, now the location of the Port of Oakland's Trapac Terminal.

Overview

The Knapp Metal Barrel Company erected a two-floor, concrete warehouse at the newly constructed Parr Terminal in 1925. The structure was to cost approximately $100,000. (This information came from a notice in an 1925 issue (month unknown) of the Architect and Engineer (vols. 80-81) on page 122.) According to the Oakland Wiki, Parr Terminal was an important site that made Oakland an international shipping port. This wiki noted in 2015: "Important to the industrial development of Oakland, California was the opening of the Parr Terminal on the Western waterfront on August 10, 1920. On of the outstanding features of the Parr Terminal service is that it made Oakland for the first time a Trans-Pacific shipping port. The first Trans-Pacific ship, the Java-Pacific Steamship Tjitaroen, (10,500 tons) was at the dock discharging and taking on Trans-Pacific cargo from September 2nd to the 7th, 1920. The breadth of the service to Oakland manufacturers by the Parr Terminal was indicated by the fact that ships arrived from and departed for what was at the time referred to as the 'Orient' (which included the Philippines, Sumatra and Java), as well as Australia, South America, Puget Sound, Havana, England, Mexican Gulf, and the principal Atlantic ports of the United States." (See Oakland Wiki, "Parr Terminal," accessed 2015-08-29.)

PCAD id: 19724