Glen_Park_(BART_station)

Glen Park station

Glen Park station

Rapid transit station in San Francisco

Glen Park station is an underground Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) station located in the Glen Park neighborhood of San Francisco, California. The station is adjacent to San Jose Avenue and Interstate 280. The station is served by the Red, Yellow, Green, and Blue lines.

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San Jose/Glen Park station on the Muni Metro J Church line is located nearby in the median of San Jose Avenue.

Design

Glen Park station under construction in 1970

The station was designed by the firm of Corlett & Spackman and architect Ernest Born in the brutalist style.[2] Born also designed the graphics for the entire BART system. The BART Board approved the name "Glen Park" in December 1965.[3] Service began on November 5, 1973.[4] The November 1974 Architectural Record wrote of the station:

The dramatic volume of the station–one of the deepest in the system–unfolds at the escalator wells, where the full height (60 feet or 18 m) of the structure is visible. During the day, daylight from the skylights, one over the mezzanine, the other over the end escalator, pours in to the lower platform, an extraordinary sight in a subway.[5]

Born designed a marble mural at the west end of the mezzanine. "100 pieces, few of which are cut at right angles, in warm brown and red-brown tones, make it up". The mural is prominently featured in a scene of the 2006 Will Smith film The Pursuit of Happyness.[6]

The station was nominated in 2019 to be listed on the National Register of Historic Places.[7][8] The Glen Park Association submitted the application, funded by a grant from San Francisco Heritage, whose president called the station "the best example of Brutalism in San Francisco, if not the entire Bay Area."[9]

See also

References

  1. [1]
    "Monthly Ridership Reports". San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District. February 2024.
  2. [2]
    Cerny, Susan Dinkelspiel (2007). An Architectural Guidebook to San Francisco and the Bay Area (1st ed.). Layton, UT: Gibbs Smith. pp. 501–502. ISBN 978-1-58685-432-4. OCLC 85623396.
  3. [3]
    "Names Approved for 38 Rapid Transit Stations Around Bay". Oakland Tribune. December 10, 1965. p. 10 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. [4]
    "BART Chronology January 1947 – March 2009" (PDF). San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District. March 2009. Archived from the original (PDF) on October 13, 2013.
  5. [5]
    "Two BART Stations". Architectural Record, November 1974.
  6. [6]
    "BART in the movies: From THX 1138 to Predator 2 to Will Smith". San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District. August 4, 2008.
  7. [7]
    Millner, Caille (August 2, 2019). "Should the Glen Park BART Station really be on the National Historic registry?". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved November 21, 2020.
  8. [8]
    "National Register Nomination Review & Comment" (PDF). San Francisco Planning Department. July 17, 2019.
  9. [9]
    King, John (July 27, 2019). "Glen Park BART Station could soon be an official national treasure". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved November 21, 2020.

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