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AKA: West Contra Costa Unified School District, Mira Vista Elementary School, Richmond, CA
Structure Type: built works - public buildings - schools - elementary schools
Designers: Warnecke, John Carl, A.I.A., Architect (firm); John Carl Warnecke Sr. (architect)
Dates: constructed 1951-1952
1 story
Building Notes
Designed for the Richmond Unified Elementary School District, the Mira Vista Elementary School received a Merit Award from the American Institute of Architects (AIA), 1954 for school design; the Mira Vista School was very highly acclaimed and published c. 1950, and was one of many school commissions (secondary and university-level) that the Warnecke firm did during the mid-twentieth century; orignally, the school complex had four components, a main, L-shaped building, and three linear classroom blocks that step up its hillside site. Keeping within CA traditions of secondary school design set by Ernest Kump, Jr., (1911-1999) and others, the school had covered, exterior corridors.
Tel: 510.231.1416 (2006).
PCAD id: 5724
