Oakland Unified School District, Cleveland Elementary School, Oakland, CA

Structure Type: built works - public buildings - schools - elementary schools

Designers: Donovan, John J., Architect (firm); Shafer, Edwin, Architect (firm); John Joseph Donovan Sr. (architect); Edwin Shafer (architect)

Dates: [unspecified]

click to open gallery Exterior view of the Cleveland School, Oakland, 1917; Fitzherbert Leather, The One-Story Schoolhouse Idea with Plans of Model Schools, (Chicago, IL: National Lumber Manufacturers Association, Trade Extension Department, General Pamplet Series No. 49, 1917), p. 24
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277 Cleveland Street
Cleveland Heights, Oakland, CA 94610
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Overview

John J. Donovan (1876-1949), as Architect for the City of Oakland, collaborated with and architect by the name of Shafer on the design of the Cleveland School. It is not clear who this Shafer was, as there is not an architect named "Edwin Shafer" listed in the Oakland City Directory. In 1917, there was an "Ervin Shafer" listed as an architect practicing in Stockton, CA.

PCAD id: 21004

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