PCAD - San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD), Market Street and 5th Street School, San Francisco, CA

AKA: San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD), Market and Fifth Street School, San Francisco, CA; San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD), Lincoln, Abraham, Grammar School, San Francisco, CA

Exterior view of the Abraham Lincoln Grammar School (second from left), San Francisco, CA, c. 1890. Abraham Lincoln Grammar School, San Francisco, CA, c. 1890. From San Francisco Public Library, Collection SFH 3, Item AAF-0280

Exterior view of the Lincoln Grammar School, destroyed following the San Francisco Earthquake and Fire of 04/18-19/1906. From From San Francisco Public Library, San Francisco Historical Photograph Collection, Item #AAC-4222

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Overview

This school operated as the Market and 5th Street School in 1862, and was renamed following the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln in 1865.

Building History

F.A. Elliott served as the Principal of the Market and 5th Street School in 1862. (See San Francisco Directory for the Year Commencing September, 1862, [San Francisco: Henry G. Langley, 1862], p. 29.)

By 1867, Ira G. Hoitt had been installed as the Lincoln School's Principal.

PCAD id: 24448

San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD), Market Street and 5th Street School, San Francisco, CA demolished