693 Vermont Street

1. 1900

   Built.

2. 1934

   Patrick Henry School, remodelled in 1934 by Gardner A. Dailey with W.D. Peugh as a Public Works Administration project. It later became Downtown High School.

   Modern Architecture and Landscape Design Context Statement, adopted 2011
3. 1935

   The 1913 wood-frame school here was cut down and rebuilt under the Public Works Administration after the 1933 Field Act tightened seismic standards. Gardner A. Dailey and Wilbur D. Peugh designed the work — the third floor removed, and a reinforced-concrete classroom wing and entrance pavilion added at the 19th Street corner in the Late Moderne style with a little Art Deco ornament over the door. The rest of the timber school came down in the early 1950s and was replaced by a matching concrete wing. The campus now houses Downtown High School.

   San Francisco New Deal Historic Context Statement, adopted 2023
4. May 2025

   Issued Permit 202505146496 $$$ $250,000

   Relocate one 5-unit mobile shower trailer to existing playground at downtown high school for purpose of servicing onsite emergency family shelter. trade permits for plumbing and electrical. trailer has stub outs, will be connected on-site.

1 nominal $1 street-space or sidewalk permit is omitted from the timeline. 1 expired permit is not shown. The assessor dates the building to 1900; Planning's historic resource survey records 1956. The New Deal context statement dates the rebuilding of the school here to 1935; the citywide professionals biographies date the same Dailey and Peugh remodelling 1934.