- City:
- Pasadena, CA
- Site Type:
- Education and Health, Schools
- New Deal Agencies:
- Public Works Funding, Public Works Administration (PWA)
- Started:
- 1934
- Completed:
- 1940
Description
This was 1 of 27 schools in the Pasadena CA school system that the New Deal was involved in demolishing, rebuilding, or re-inforcing after the 1933 Long Beach earthquake. The school was originally built in 1925, but was badly damaged in 1933. Reconstruction was delayed to intermittent funding by federal grants that were supplied in November 1934, February 1937, & June 1939. With funding from the Works Progress Administration, the John Marshall School was finally completed in 1940.
Source notes
Pasadena Museum of History 1950 Pasadena school directorySite originally submitted by Andrew Laverdiere on April 13, 2014.
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John Settle
Thank you for producing this website. My mom attended John Marshall JHS not long after it opened in 1940, and I went there in the Sixties. One of my mom’s teachers there was also my teacher.
Graduated from here Marshall jr. Hi. in 1949 or 1950. Then to Pasadena Jr. College.