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Structure Type: built works - public buildings - schools - elementary schools
Designers: Symmes and Cullimore, Architects (firm); Clarence C. Cullimore Sr. (architect); Edwin Joseph Symmes (architect)
Dates: constructed 1922, demolished 1952
1 story
Overview
Opened in 1922, the Roosevelt Elementary School #1 in Bakersfield, CA, operated for thirty years before the Tehachapi Earthquake of 07/21/1952 inflicted serious damage on the building. It was deemed unsafe and razed shortly thereafter.
Alteration
According to the Annual Report of the Bakersfield City Schools for the Year Ending 1930: "Under the direction of Symmes & Cullimore Architects, an addition of four rooms has been completed at the Roosevelt School, cost about $24,500. This cost was provided for in the budget of the $120,000 direct tax issue.” (See Bakersfield City School District, Annual Report of the Bakersfield City Schools for the Year Ending 1930, [Bakersfield, CA: Bakersfield City School District, 1930], p. 25.)
PCAD id: 24028
