Angel Island Immigration Station
National Park Service, California State Parks & Angel Island Immigration Station Foundation
San Francisco Bay, California

In operation from 1910 until 1940, the station acted as the port of entry for thousands of mostly Chinese immigrants who came to the United States. Its extraordinary features include the rare and poignant poems carved on the walls of the Detention Barracks. With the bombing of Pearl Harbor in 1941, and the outbreak of World War II, the Station was used as a POW processing facility. By 1946, the Station buildings were abandoned, suffering neglect, vandalism, and decay. In 1963, Angel Island was turned over to the State of California, and by 1970, the buildings faced demolition, but interest was revived upon the discovery of poems on the Barracks’ walls by a State Park Ranger.

ARG was retained to produce a Historic Structures Report for each of the three principal existing structures at the Station—the Detention Barracks, Hospital, and Power Station.

For more information on the Immigration Station, visit www.angelisland.org/immigr02.html.