460 Arguello Boulevard

1. 1867

   The Board of Supervisors set this block frontage on First Avenue (now Arguello Boulevard) aside as a public school reservation under the Outside Lands settlement.

   SF Planning, landmark designation
2. September 1877

   The Board of Education opened the Point Lobos Road Primary School on part of the site, at first holding classes in a rented building.

   SF Planning, landmark designation
3. September 19, 1888

   An earlier schoolhouse was dedicated on the site: a purpose-built three-story wood-frame Italianate building for the Point Lobos Road Primary School, designed by Board of Education architect Thomas J. Welsh at a cost of $15,627.25.

   SF Planning, landmark designation
4. 1891

   The primary school then on the site was renamed the Richmond School; it later became the Richmond Grammar School.

   SF Planning, landmark designation
5. 1910

   The grammar school then on the site was renamed Roosevelt School, after President Theodore Roosevelt.

   SF Planning, landmark designation
6. 1927

   The old wooden Roosevelt School then on the site caught fire in the spring and was condemned by the fire marshal, though it stayed in use for about 179 first- to sixth-graders for lack of other classrooms.

   SF Planning, landmark designation
7. 1930

   Built by Jacks & Irvine.

8. 1930

   Roosevelt Middle School, designed by architect Timothy Pflueger.

   Architecture, Planning & Preservation Professionals: A Collection of Biographies, adopted 2021
9. November 9, 1930

   The new Roosevelt Junior High School, in use since classes began that September, was formally dedicated in its 950-seat auditorium.

   SF Planning, landmark designation
10. 1933–1934

    Public Works of Art Project artist Horatio Nelson Poole painted the paired oil-on-canvas murals Land and Harvest for the first-floor lobby, beginning about December 1933 and finishing after federal funds ran out on May 1, 1934 with state relief money.

    SF Planning, landmark designation
11. 1934

    One of the existing school buildings that Public Works of Art Project funds decorated with murals. The school is City Landmark No. 285.

    San Francisco New Deal Historic Context Statement, adopted 2023
12. April 1934

    George Wilson Walker finished Education, a 5-by-25-foot Public Works of Art Project mural above the second-floor entrance to the auditorium.

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13. 1958–1959

    Seven houses along Palm Avenue were condemned and removed to enlarge the school's play yard to its present size.

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14. August 13, 1964

    Photographed, showing the Roosevelt Jr. High School.

    San Francisco Subjects Photograph Collection (SFP 162), San Francisco Public Library
15. 1975

    The school's first major renovation, drawn by Yull-Thorton & Levikow Architects, added a shear wall and an elevator tower and replaced all the original windows.

    SF Planning, landmark designation
16. 1978

    Theodore Roosevelt Junior High was renamed Theodore Roosevelt Middle School.

    SF Planning, landmark designation
17. Apr 2015

    Issued Permit M579847

    Streetspace.

18. March 5, 2019

    Designated San Francisco Landmark No. 285, Theodore Roosevelt Middle School.

    SF Planning, landmark designation

4 nominal $1 street-space or sidewalk permits are omitted from the timeline. 1 expired permit is not shown. The assessor dates the building to 1930; Planning's historic resource survey records 1928.