- City:
- Whittier, CA
- Site Type:
- Education and Health, Art Works, Schools, Sculpture and Bas Relief
- New Deal Agencies:
- Work Relief Programs, Works Progress Administration (WPA)
- Completed:
- 1938
- Artist:
- Bartholomew (Bartolo) Mako
- Quality of Information:
- Good
- Marked:
- Unknown
- Site Survival:
- Extant
Description
The Hoover School of Fine Arts, previously known as the Lou Henry Hoover Elementary School, is graced with beautiful bas-reliefd frieze by Bartolo Mako over the entrance. The frieze depicts a scene of the early Quakers who founded the city of Whittier more than one hundred years ago.
The frieze is part of the structure, which was designed by local architect William Harrison, and paid for as part of the building construction.
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