UC Extension/San Francisco State Teacher’s University – Woods Hall Annex – San Francisco CA

Description

San Francisco State University (then, the Normal School) moved here from its original location at Powell and Clay Streets after the 1906 earthquake. In 1936, the Woods Hall Annex science building was completed in the Northwest corner of the campus at the corner of Haight and Buchanan. It had been started under SERA but was completed with WPA funds. The work included the completion of the building from the first floor. The project was submitted under WPA Serial No. 0702-14 for completion of footings to and including the first floor slab. (Mooser)

San Francisco State moved its Lake Merced campus in 1953-54. The Laguna and Haight Street campus until recently was a part of University of California Extension.

Additional WPA art in this location included a mural by Jack Moxom in the library of the Frederic Burk Training School of San Francisco State College, at the corner of Herman & Webster Streets, and a marble mosaic by Maxine Albro over the Haight & Buchanan Streets’ entrance to Woods Hall (then the Hall of Natural Science), San Francisco State College. The Hall also contains a WPA mural, “A Dissertation on Alchemy”, by Reuben Kadish.