Glen Park Elementary School

1. 1910–1912

   The Glen Park Grammar School was built on this parcel for the families who settled Glen Park after 1906 — a three-story Mission Revival building with shaped parapets and a detached auditorium reached by a one-story passage. It taught first through eighth grade and was replaced in 1934.

   Glen Park Historic Context Statement, adopted 2011
2. 1934

   Completed.

3. 1935

   A new Glen Park Elementary School was built here with Public Works Administration funding, replacing the wood-frame school put up after the 1906 earthquake. Bliss & Fairweather and Lewis Hobart designed it in the PWA Moderne style in fireproof concrete, in three phases: the 18-classroom academic building on Lippard Street in 1935, the kindergarten wing on Brompton Street in 1938 and the auditorium on Bosworth Street in 1939. It opened to neighbourhood children on 9 November 1937.

   San Francisco New Deal Historic Context Statement, adopted 2023
4. 1935

   Glen Park School, designed by John Bakewell Jr.

   Architecture, Planning & Preservation Professionals: A Collection of Biographies, adopted 2021
5. 1939

   Chain link fences were added to the concrete retaining walls, five years after the school was completed.

   Glen Park Historic Context Statement, adopted 2011
6. 1965

   A concrete pedestrian ramp was built over Bosworth Street, after the city widened it to four lanes in 1964; small sections of the retaining wall at the northern boundary were removed for it.

   Glen Park Historic Context Statement, adopted 2011
7. 1986

   Accessibility upgrades added entrances, drinking fountains, bathrooms and handrails, the largest exterior change being a new ramp and entrance on the east elevation at the northern playground.

   Glen Park Historic Context Statement, adopted 2011
8. 2023

   Recommended for city landmark designation in 2023, on historical, aesthetic and artistic grounds.

   San Francisco New Deal Historic Context Statement, adopted 2023

8 nominal $1 street-space or sidewalk permits are omitted from the timeline. The city's New Deal survey dates the school's first phase, the academic building on Lippard Street, to 1935; the assessor's roll gives 1934. The city's New Deal survey gives the school as 151 Lippard Street in its project table and as 151 Lippard Avenue in its landmark recommendations; the city's address registry has only Lippard Avenue.