Edmonds School District #15, Mountlake Terrace High School, Gymnasium, Mountlake Terrace, WA (1960)

Structure Type: built works - public buildings - schools - high schools; built works - recreation areas and structures - gymnasiums

Designers: Burkhard, Ralph H., Architect (firm); Ralph Halbert Burkhard (architect)

Dates: constructed 1960

1 story

According to WA State Architectural Historian, Michael Houser, the Gymnasium of the Mountlake Terrace High School featured a novel construction method; according to him it "...was the first major use of triangular Glu-laminated beams on the West coast." (See "Architects Ralph H. Burkhard,"Accessed 02/23/2010.)

PCAD id: 14883

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