PCAD - Oakland Unified School District, McChesney Elementary School, Glenview, Oakland, CA

AKA: Oakland Unified School District, Brewer, Edna, Middle School, Oakland, CA; Oakland Board of Education, McChesney Elementary School, Glenview, Oakland, CA

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

Exterior view of the front facade of the McChesney School, Oakland, CA, c. 1916. From Creighton Barker, "The Small Country Schoolhouse," Construction, vol. XI, no. 7, 07/1918, p. 222

Exterior view of the rear facade of the McChesney Elementary School, Oakland, CA, c. 1916. Creighton Barker, "The Small Country Schoolhouse," Construction, vol. XI, no. 7, 07/1918, p. 222

Sanborn Map of the McChesney School, Oakland, CA, 1925. From "Edna Brewer Middle School," Oakland Wiki.org

Upper and lower floor plans of the McChesney Elementary School, Oakland, CA, c. 1913. From Creighton Barker, "The Small Country Schoolhouse," Construction, vol. XI, no. 7, 07/1918, p. 222

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3748 13th Avenue
Glenview, Oakland, CA 94610

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Overview

Oakland architect John J. Donovan emerged in the 1910s as a leading designer of schools in California, publishing a widely read text on the subject entitled School Architecture: Principles and Practices, (New York: Macmillan Company, 1921). He completed the McChesney Elementary School in 1913, for a site at the intersection of 13th Avenue and East 38th Street.

Building History

As per the Oakland Wiki.org, John J. Donovan (1876-1949) designed the McChesney Elementary School, completed on 12/01/1913. It cost $74,865 to build. The school was named in honor of educator Joseph B. McChesney (1832-1912), Oakland High School's first Principal, who died the year before this elmentary school was finished. In 1918, W.D. Forbes served as the principal.

The school was later converted to usage as a middle school.

Oakland Unified School District administrators renamed the facility,for Edna Brewer (d. 1987), principal of the middle school from 1971 until 1985, in 1989.

PCAD id: 22844

Publications

Barker, Creighton, "The Small Country Schoolhouse", Construction, XI: 7, 222, 1918-07.

Oakland Unified School District, McChesney Elementary School, Glenview, Oakland, CA (1913)

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