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District 10 · Block 4107, Lot 006 · ZIP 94107

Irving M. Scott School

1060 Tennessee Street

  • Building
  • 2 stories
  • 29,999 ft2 lot area
  • Wood frame
  • Zoned P
  • Historic resource
  • City landmark
  • Individually listed on the National Register
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  1. 1867

    The Outside Lands Committee set this parcel aside for a school, one of several it reserved in outlying sections of the city.

    Dogpatch Historic Context Statement, adopted 2001
  2. 1877

    The San Francisco School Department built an eight-room frame school facing Minnesota Street, replacing the Potrero School of 1865 at Napa and Kentucky Streets.

    Dogpatch Historic Context Statement, adopted 2001
  3. 1895

    An addition facing Tennessee Street. The school was renamed for the superintendent of Union Iron Works, who gave money towards its construction and equipment.

    Dogpatch Historic Context Statement, adopted 2001
  4. 1899

    Schoolchildren from the school escorted President McKinley to the laying of the keel of the USS Ohio at Union Iron Works.

    Dogpatch Historic Context Statement, adopted 2001
  5. 1900

    Built by L. J. Dwyer (1895 addition).

  6. 1981

    Designated San Francisco Landmark No. 138, Potrero School.

    SF Planning, landmark designation

2 nominal $1 street-space or sidewalk permits are omitted from the timeline. The assessor's roll gives 1900; the 2001 Dogpatch survey dates the Tennessee Street addition to 1895 and the school it replaced to 1877.

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