Monterey Vista School Reconstruction – Los Angeles CA

City:
Los Angeles, CA

Site Type:
Education and Health, Schools

New Deal Agencies:
Public Works Funding, Public Works Administration (PWA)

Started:
1934

Completed:
1935

Description

1 of 4 schools that included Emerson, Willard, and Marshal schools within the Garvey School District of Los Angeles that were rebuilt following the 1933 Long Beach earthquake under the supervision and sponsorship of the school district. L.A.C.R.A. (Los Angeles County Relief Agency) labor was employed in the reconstruction.

3 photographs show the rebuilding of the front entrance, and a front lawn stone sign and bench constructed from the remains of the original school entrance.

PWA Project #1 B4 515 A

Project dates: Oct. 16, 1934 to Apr. 1, 1935.

Source notes

Pasadena Museum of History Descriptions by an official of the WPA in a photo album

Site originally submitted by Andrew Laverdiere on December 13, 2013.

Location Info


901 E. Graves Ave
Los Angeles, CA 91755
Los Angeles County

Coordinates: 34.055358, -118.11022

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