- City:
- Beverly Hills, CA
- Site Type:
- Gymnasiums, Education and Health, Schools
- New Deal Agencies:
- Works Progress Administration (WPA), Work Relief Programs
- Completed:
- 1939
- Designer:
- Stiles O. Clements
- Quality of Information:
- Moderate
- Marked:
- Yes
- Site Survival:
- Extant
Description
While the main buildings of Beverly Hills High School date to 1927, the unique “Swim Gym” was built by the Works Progress Administration (WPA) in 1939. Designed by Stiles O. Clements, the gym features a basketball court that can be opened to access a 25-yard swimming pool below. It has appeared in films such as It’s a Wonderful Life and Clueless.
Source notes
Beverly Hills High School, Wikipedia
Site originally submitted by Andrew Laverdiere on July 11, 2010.
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The Swim-Gym and Konheim Athletic Building are separate buildings. As a Beverly Hills High School alumnus I suggest you provide more proof that the Konheim Athletic Building is a New Deal project.
What you called a side photo of the Beverly Hills High School gym is another building of classrooms.
Here is a 1991 Los Angeles Times story I wrote about “It’s a Wonderful Life” mentioning the Swim-Gym, https://articles.latimes.com/1991-12-15/news/tv-556_1_wonderful-life