The 198,000-square-foot Haslett Warehouse was built by the California Fruit Canners Association between 1907 and 1909 as part of the world's largest fruit and vegetable cannery which included the Del Monte Company peach cannery adjacent to the Haslett Warehouse. The Cannery was saved from demolition and renovated by developer Leonard Martin into a shops and restaurants. The Cannery was a pioneer and exemplar of economically viable restoration of historic building projects.

The Haslett Warehouse, also newly renovated, is owned by the National Park Service and houses the San Francisco Maritime Park Museum, a small but highly evocative museum of San Francisco's maritime heritage. The balance of the building is leased to San Francisco's Kimpton Hotel and Restaurant Group for the Argonaut Hotel.

The Haslett Warehouse is superbly situated on Aquatic Park at the northern terminus of both the cable cars of the Powell-Hyde Line and the the vintage streetcars of the Market Street Railway F-Line.