PCAD - United States Army (USA), Camp Fremont Complex, Palo Alto, CA

Structure Type: Objects Facet – Built Environment – Built Complexes and Districts – complexes – complexes by function – office complexes; built works - military buildings

Palo Alto, CA

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This military camp spread out over much of north Palo Alto and south Menlo Park, from Alameda de las Puelgas to what became East Palo Alto, CA, on the Bay.

This huge, but ephemernal military facility operated as a staging facility for the U.S. Army's 8th Division on its entry into World War I. The camp spread out over 25,000 acres in what is now Palo Alto, CA, and Menlo Park, CA, and included over 1,000 military buildings, some of which survived the war.

A prominent survivor was the Canteen at Camp Fremont, designed by San Francisco architect, Julia H. Morgan (1872-1957), which became the well-known Macarthur Park Restaurant in 1982. This camp's existence coincided with the Influenza Pandemic of 1918, that took a serious toll on the soldier's stationed there.

PCAD id: 6568

United States Army (USA), Camp Fremont Complex, Palo Alto, CA (1917-1918)