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District 10 · Block 6254, Lot 001 · ZIP 94134

Visitation Valley Elementary School

55 Schwerin Street

  • School building
  • 2 stories
  • 70,532 ft2 lot area
  • Zoned P
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  1. 1935

    Visitacion Valley Elementary School was rebuilt here in reinforced concrete for $250,000 with Public Works Administration funding, replacing the wood-frame schoolhouse of 1911. G. Albert Lansburgh and Hyman & Appleton designed it in the PWA Moderne style with terra cotta ornament: academic building 1935, auditorium 1937, kindergarten building 1939.

    San Francisco New Deal Historic Context Statement, adopted 2023
  2. 1937

    Visitation Valley Elementary School, designed by Abraham Appleton.

    Architecture, Planning & Preservation Professionals: A Collection of Biographies, adopted 2021
  3. 1939

    Built.

  4. 2023

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

    San Francisco New Deal Historic Context Statement, adopted 2023

3 nominal $1 street-space or sidewalk permits are omitted from the timeline. 1 expired permit is not shown. The assessor dates the building to 1939; Planning's historic resource survey records 1937. This building's context statement dates the work 1937; the assessor's roll records the parcel as built 1939.

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