- City:
- Los Angeles, CA
- Site Type:
- Education and Health, Schools
- New Deal Agencies:
- Federal Emergency Administration of Public Works, Public Works Funding
- Completed:
- 1939
- Quality of Information:
- Good
- Marked:
- Yes
- Site Survival:
- Extant
Description
The Los Angeles Center for Advanced Studies was launched in 1977 as the first magnet school in LA and used various facilities such as a temple, an unused building at Hamilton High School, and a closed Catholic School at Pico and Arlington before moving to the current site in 1986.
It now occupies the campus of the former Louis Pasteur Middle School, which was built in 1939 with aid from the Public Works Administration (PWA) – sometimes called by its full name, the Federal Emergency Administration of Public Works, as in this case.
It is probable that the Pasteur Middle School was built after a predecessor was damaged in the 1933 Long Beach earthquake. The architecture is Art Deco, often used for schools in Los Angeles built during the New Deal era.
Source notes
Plaque on the school auditorium
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Angeles_Center_for_Enriched_Studies
Site originally submitted by Andrew Laverdiere on August 13, 2016.
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I Was There
It moved to the Pastuer site in 87, not 86.