Abraham Lincoln High School

1. 1900

   Built.

2. 1940

   The academic building of Abraham Lincoln High School was built here with Public Works Administration funding, at a cost of $750,000, and dedicated on 22 September 1940 with 100 classrooms, a shops complex and a library. Timothy Pflueger led the design, assisted by Frederick H. Meyer, Wilbur Peugh and Martin J. Rist, in the Late Moderne style; the gymnasium and auditorium in the same plan waited until after the Second World War.

   San Francisco New Deal Historic Context Statement, adopted 2023
3. 1940

   Abraham Lincoln School, designed by architect Frederick H. Meyer.

   Architecture, Planning & Preservation Professionals: A Collection of Biographies, adopted 2021
4. 1954

   Abraham Lincoln High School, designed by Edward L. Frick with his firm Weilhe, Frick & Kruse.

   Architecture, Planning & Preservation Professionals: A Collection of Biographies, adopted 2021
5. June 11, 1964

   Photographed, showing the Lincoln High School.

   San Francisco Subjects Photograph Collection (SFP 162), San Francisco Public Library
6. 2023

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

   San Francisco New Deal Historic Context Statement, adopted 2023

2 nominal $1 street-space or sidewalk permits are omitted from the timeline. 1 cancelled permit is not shown. The assessor dates the building to 1900; Planning's historic resource survey records 1940. This building's context statement dates the work 1954; the assessor's roll records the parcel as built 1900.