- City:
- Santa Monica, CA
- Site Type:
- Schools, Education and Health
- New Deal Agencies:
- Works Progress Administration (WPA), Work Relief Programs
- Completed:
- 1935
- Designer:
- Marsh Smith and Powell
- Quality of Information:
- Good
- Marked:
- Unknown
- Site Survival:
- Extant
Description
In 1935, the Works Project Administration (WPA) completed construction of a new Streamline Moderne–style campus for John Adams Junior High School (today’s John Adams Middle School) in Santa Monica, CA.
The original 1913 John Adams campus at Los Amigos Park 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
Santa Monica History Museum (Danielle Lewis)
Roxanne Tanemori, Draft Historic Resource Inventory Update Historic Context Statement (Memorandum to the Honorable Landmarks Commission), Feb. 10, 2017.
Site originally submitted by Tomoyo Takahashi on April 13, 2014.
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