This past June marked the opening of Lodge at the Presidio, a companion facility to Inn at the Presidio that opened in 2012. Both lodge buildings once housed soldiers stationed in the former military post.
The new lodge is in Building 105, a 3-story brick structure built in 1897 as one of several large barracks on the Presidio’s Main Post. A portion of the building was formerly used by the National Park Service as a visitor center that subsequently moved to a temporary location before finding a permanent home near the Presidio Transit Center. Both the Transit Center and NPS visitor center are a short walk from the new lodge.
The Presidio transitioned from military post to becoming part of Golden Gate National Recreation Area when the U.S. Army departed in the 1990s. Management of the 1,500-acre property was subsequently split between the NPS that cares for 300 acres of coastal area, and the Presidio Trust that was established to oversee the interior area that includes most of the extensive infrastructure including the two lodges.
The Presidio Trust owns both lodges and paid for their renovations. It hired Waterford Hotels & Inns of San Mateo to manage the properties. Building 105 in which the new lodging facility is located was the more expensive of the two to renovate, being completely gutted prior to adding new walls to make the historic building suitable as a lodging facility. The project required three years and cost $25 million, including $1 million for air conditioning.
https://www.nationalparkstraveler.org/2019/01/new-lodging-san-franciscos-presidio
