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1501 Ofarrell Street

Western Addition · San Francisco, CA 94115

  • Built 1900
  • School building
  • Zoned P
  • District 5
  • Historic status: unevaluated
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141,326 sq ftLot area
  1. 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
  2. 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

Not yet documented: the architect and builder, the early tenants and the date of the last recorded sale. The assessor dates the building to 1900; Planning's historic resource survey records 1924. Submit an update