- City:
- Santa Monica, CA
- Site Type:
- Schools, Education and Health
- New Deal Agencies:
- Works Progress Administration (WPA), Work Relief Programs
- Completed:
- 1936
- Designers:
- Donald Parkinson, Joe Estep
- Quality of Information:
- Good
- Marked:
- Yes
- Site Survival:
- Extant
Description
In 1936, the Works Project Administration (WPA) completed construction of a new Streamline Moderne–style campus for Grant Elementary School in Santa Monica, CA.
The school was designed by architects Donald Parkinson and Joe Estep, who would go on to design Santa Monica City Hall.
Grant’s original Virginia Avenue campus was one of four Santa Monica schools demolished after suffering severe damage in the 1933 Long Beach earthquake. System-wide renovations cost $3 million dollars.
Source notes
Roxanne Tanemori, Draft Historic Resource Inventory Update Historic Context Statement (Memorandum to the Honorable Landmarks Commission), Feb. 10, 2017.
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You’re right about Grant School being damaged by the 1933 earthquake. See the recently released Draft Historic Resource Inventory update: https://www.smgov.net/uploadedFiles/Departments/PCD/Programs/Historic-Preservation/Santa%20Monica%20Citywide%20Historic%20Context%20Statement_2.4.2017.pdf.
Page 205, etc.