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The 4th Ward Elementary School cost approximately $30,000 to erect, and functioned as an elementary school serving grades 1-7 between 1904-1917. In 1917, it became used as a junior high school, and later was reused as a grade school before being decommissioned.

Seen from the front, this Mission Revival school building, sat on tall foundations and had a U-shaped plan, shaped around a front courtyard. The central section, containing the main entry, resembled an early mission, complete with scalloped parapet, stucco walls, red tile roof, and paired bell towers, and was flanked by projecting wings. Each wing presented the front facing viewer with two large bay windows. The basement was used for home economics and woodworking classes for seventh graders.

The school was remodeled in the 1920s, transforming it from a Mission Revival design to a more staid, but au courant Colonial Revival building. During this remodeling, the two bell towers and central scalloped parapet were removed, leaving the central portion covered with a compound hipped roof.

Demolished.

PCAD id: 19280