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The California School of Mechanical Arts began operations in 01/1895, depending on an endowment of $540,000 made 20 years previously by James Lick (1796-1876). Next door to Lick, the Wilmerding School of Industrial Arts also opened by the Regents of the University of California. A year after opening, Wilmerding and Lick began a process of gradual administrative consolidation, as George Merrill (1866-1944) supervised both schools. In addition, the Lux School for Industrial Training for Girls opened in 08/1912 in a facility adjacent to the Lick-Wilmerding complex. These three institutions developed together until the closure of Lux in 1952. A new campus for the fully consolidated Lick-Wilmerding High School enrolled students in 1955.

Lick's two hipped roof, two-story buildings, each with Romanesque arched windows, resembled those being built at Stanford University at about the same time.

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