The Old Sailors Home, San Francisco

 

William Hancock Wilke

  1879 - 1958 (biography)

c. 1925  

etching 

7 x 11 15/16" platemark 

pencil, lower center 

not stated 

pencil titled, annotated "Razed 1924" in lower right, "Demolished end of October 1924" in lower left corner of margin 

 

antique-white wove with "CPO" watermark 

published 

artist 

21730 

$200.00 

The Old Sailors Home, which was the original United States Marine Corps hospital of San Francisco, was built in 1875 in the Rincon Hill neighborhood, on Harrison between Spear and Main. The building had fallen into disrepair when Wilke chose it as his subject, and was demolished in 1924.