PCAD - Seattle Public Schools, Beacon Hill Elementary School #2, Beacon Hill, Seattle, WA

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

Exterior view of the Beacon Hill School Buildings #1 (right) and #2, Seattle, WA, 1904. From the University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections Division, Asahel Curtis Collection

Map location of Beacon Hills Schools #1 (below) and #2 (above), Seattle, WA, 1908. From Baist's Real Estate Atlas of Surveys of Seattle, Wash. (Philadelphia: George William Baist, 1908), Map 25L, source map: Library of Congress

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2524 16th Avenue South
Beacon Hill, Seattle, WA 98144-5104

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Building History

A group of protesters, led by Roberto Maestas, occupied the vacant Beacon Hill Elementary School on 10/11/1972 demonstrating their opposition to budget cuts for public education at the secondary and community college levels in Seattle, WA. Following this, Maestas and supporters bought the school and established El Centro de la Raza at Beacon Hill Elementary.

The center served 12,314 people in 2006. A 35th anniversary celebration was observed on 10/13/2007 at the Washington State Convention and Trade Center.

PCAD id: 9466

Publications

Harrell, Debera Carlton, "'The People's Center' at 35", Seattle Post-Intelligencer, A1, A8, 10/09/2007.

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Seattle Public Schools, 1862-2000: Beacon Hill Elementary School

Seattle Public Schools, Beacon Hill Elementary School #2, Beacon Hill, Seattle, WA (1903-1904)

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