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- 3 images. Lowell School Bullard & Haywood, arch. F.H. Goss, contr. -named in honor of James Russell Lowell, American poet and diplomat -demolished after damage from earthquake of 4/13/1949. One Lowell student was killed in the earthquake and two other were injured. Marvin Klegman was killed by bricks from a falling chimney while leaving his classroom to go on school patrol duty. TDL 6/24/1892 p.3 A fine new building to be erected ... TDL 3/4/1893 p.5 Finest city school TDL 8/25/1907 p.17 Moving old school (Lowell School bldg. moved to Aquinas Academy campus at 1112 No. G St.) TNT 12/1/1920 City schools overcrowded (interior il) TDL 5/26/1935 p.A3 Pictures tell story of kidnapping (Geo. Weyerhauser kidnapping) (il,interior il) TNT 5/28/1948 p.4 Get $3,600 toward job (il of playground surfacing fund raising group) TNT 4/13/1949 p.1 Tacoma quake kills child TNT 4/14/1949 p.A1 Lowell boy met death in line of duty p.B2 Where death walked (il) TNT 4/15/1949 p.1 Lowell School may be closed rest of term TNT 4/24/1949 p.A15 Tacoma quake victim honored in U.S. Senate TNT 6/5/1949 p.A6 Lowell School quake "monument" (il) TNT 8/10/1949 p.1 Wreckers pull down Lowell School tower (il) TNT 8/31/1949 p.1 The future, the present, the past (il of rubble) TNT 10/10/1949 p.6 Lowell School bell will be at TAC party TNT 10/15/1949 Lowell school "firsts" honor guests at party TNT 5/10/1951 p.A1 Easy now, men (il of former Lowell School Annex being moved to 3316 So. 10th St. for use as a residence) TNT 4/12/1999 p.A1 Ripples of destruction; the 1949 earthquake (il) TNT 9/12/2003 p.B1 Youth's sacrifice not forgotten; statue honors '49 quake hero (il of Marvin Klegman statue by sculptor Larry Anderson TNT 4/26/2015 p.A1 What little boy did with a life that was saved (il of Kelcy Allen and Marvin Klegman) 371.01 OL8F p.43 (il c.1892) 379.797 H629H p.27 917.972 Sp4 (il) 979.7788 K355T p.61 (il)
- Year Built: 1892
- Decade Built: 1890s
- Demolished: 1949