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Theodore Judah School

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Built
  
1939 (1939)

Opened
  
1939

Phone
  
+1 916-395-4790

Added to NRHP
  
25 July 1997

NRHP Reference #
  
97000810

Area
  
7,300 m²

Architectural style
  
Streamline Moderne

Theodore Judah School

Location
  
3919 McKinley Blvd., Sacramento, California

Address
  
3919 McKinley Blvd, Sacramento, CA 95819, USA

Similar
  
McKinley Park, Pony Express Terminal, East Portal Park, Big Four House, Calpak Plant No 11

Profiles

Theodore Judah School is a historic elementary school located in Sacramento, California. The 1937 edifice is the last standing PWA school in the city.

History

The school opened in 1927 in a "one-room wooden bungalow" and was called the David Lubin Annex, with only a handful of children and a short-term teacher. The same year, the school was enlarged into a K-6 setting and given the name Theodore Judah School, presumably after Theodore Judah, who helped design the first Transcontinental railroad. In 1937, the Public Works Administration began constructing a permanent building for the school and finished in 1939.

Using the fact that it is the oldest continuously operated school in the city, as well as arguing its architectural significance, community members and school administration successfully petitioned the City of Sacramento to have the school placed on the city's historic register in 1994. In maintaining the building's original look and feel, the Sacramento City Unified School District brought in a specialist to determine the original paint colors of the building when the building was repainted in 1995.

In 1997, the school gained placement on the National Register of Historic Places, due to its architectural design, after a seven-year-long effort on the behalf of community members.

References

Theodore Judah School Wikipedia


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