Building History

According to the Oakland Wiki.org, Parr Terminal opened on 08/10/1920. This bayside wharf and warehouse complex handled primarily West Coast and Pacific steamship traffic, although East Coast steamers made port here, as well. A contemporary description of the complex described it: "The main warehouse and transit shed is a concrete and steel building of 60,000 square feet floor space. An auxiliary warehouse for the handling and storage of Nitrate, Copra and other cargoes that are not usually handled in general storage warehouses has just been completed. This warehouse has 12,000 square feet floor space. The open storage area is 160 feet wide and 1560 feet long, paralleling the waterfront, and is provided with two shipside tracks and one track on the land side of the storage area. The Parr Terminal offers for lease on long terms ideal industrial sites adjacent to wharf and warehouse, with spur track facilities. Sites ranging in size from half-acre to ten and twenty acre parcels are available. A lease had already been closed with the American Manganese Steel Company, covering seven acres of ground on which they have erected and are operating a plant at a cost of over $300,000.00. Other tenants include Lawrence-Reynolds Co. (Chemical Plant), Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Co., and H. J. Baker and Co. (Nitrate Depot).” (See Oakland Wiki.org, "Parr Terminal," accessed 07/23/2024.)

Alteration

In 1921, an addition to the Parr Terminal Company's Oakland freight sheds was to cost $88,614. (See “Oakland Prepares for Building Large Structures: Scottish Rites Masons Will Build Temple,” San Francisco Chronicle, 10/30/1921, p. 5.)

PCAD id: 25372