Grant Elementary School – Santa Monica CA

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.

Location Info


2368 Pearl St
Santa Monica, CA 90405
Los Angeles County

Coordinates: 34.0187, -118.4617

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One comment on “Grant Elementary School – Santa Monica CA

  1. Bill Purdy

    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.

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  1. Bill Purdy

    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.

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