History

The BoilerHouse restaurant is located in the magnificent former power plant of a Ford automobile factory. In 1931 Ford opened the largest West Coast assembly plant in Richmond, CA. Designed by the great industrial architect Albert Kahn, the 525,000 sq ft building utilizes natural light from a vast array of skylights, and has the open space environment typical of Kahn-designed structures.

The main building is composed of a two-story section, a single-story section, a craneway, a boiler house and a shed canopy structure over the railroad track. The 45,000 sq ft bay front Craneway Pavilion, the southernmost partition of the complex, now offers the largest and finest event space in the Bay Area, with stunning architecture and breathtaking views.

The BoilerHouse restaurant sits adjacent to the Craneway Pavilion and offers seasonal American cuisine, set against a backdrop of original equipment from the Ford boiler house room (hence our name).

The NPS Rosie the Riveter WWII Museum will be housed in the Ford oil house and is scheduled to open in May 2012.

The Ford Plant is part of the Rosie the Riveter/WWII Home Front National Historical Park and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.