1501 O'Farrell Street

1. 1900

   Built.

2. before 1942

   The Raphael Weill School, which with Pacific Heights Elementary served most of the children of the Japantown area, and whose multi-ethnic intake led Dorothea Lange to call this 'the so-called international district'. It is now Rosa Parks Elementary.

   Japantown Historic Context Statement, May 2009
3. 1942

   One of the places the city's Japanese community was ordered to report to in 1942, and the point from which the last busloads of Japanese Americans left San Francisco. Dorothea Lange photographed the school's Japanese American pupils days before their families were removed.

   Japantown Historic Context Statement, May 2009
4. 1956

   One of only three buildings the Western Addition A-1 plan spared from demolition: the Raphael Weill school, since renamed Rosa Parks Elementary School. A mural, Now and Then, was painted at the school in 1996.

   African American Citywide Historic Context Statement, adopted 2024

2 nominal $1 street-space or sidewalk permits are omitted from the timeline. The assessor dates the building to 1900; Planning's historic resource survey records 1924. The city's African American context statement gives Rosa Parks Elementary School as 1501 O'Farrell Street in one passage and 1601 O'Farrell Street in another.