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Building History

The first David Starr Jordan High School suffered serious damage in the 1933 Long Beach Earthquake. Beginning in 1934 and continuing through 1937, the campus was rebuilt, in large part utilizing New Deal funds. Architects Sumner P. Hunt (1865-1938) and Emmet G. Martin (1889-1937) contributed designs for specific campus buildings. Martin died in 1937 and Hunt in 1938, meaning Jordan High School was one of the last commissions completed by both architects.

In 10/2020, the name of "David Starr Jordan High School" was shortened simply to "Jordan High School." Community members objected to commemorating Stanford University's first president and ichthyologist, David Starr Jordan (1851-1931), an outspoken advocate of racial segregation and eugenics. For continuity's sake, the Jordan name was retained in the process, but all mention of the early Stanford University president's controversial views was stricken from the record. (See Howard Blume, "High school's name change reflects reckoning of past," Los Angeles Times, 10/08/2020, pp. B1, B6.) At the same time, Stanford University also renamed various parts of the campus named for Jordan, including "Jordan Hall" on its historic Quad (renamed to "Building 420,") and took down a statue of Jordan's intellectual forebearer, Louis Agassiz (1807-1873), on Jordan Hall, due to a report on Jordan's ideas issued by a campus committee.

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