Workmen are finishing the interior of one of the classrooms at the new Edison School. The April 1949 earthquake severely damaged the earlier school and it was condemned as unsafe and ordered closed in 1950 (along with Whitman and Willard). (For the Record, Winnifred L. Olsen)

Edison Elementary School (Tacoma); Public schools--Tacoma;

Copy of architect's drawing of new Edison Elementary School. Initially started in a feed store in 1891, by 1949 Edison had evolved into a big nineteen room brick school at S. 58th and Cedar Streets. The April, 1949, earthquake severely damaged the school and it was condemned as unsafe and ordered closed in 1950. According to Winnifred Olsen's history of Tacoma Public Schools, For The Record, Edison's 540 students had to attend schools in double shifts at the Barlow Annex. Lance, McGuire and Muri, Architects, were commissioned to draw up plans for a new elementary school. It was finally built in 1952 at its current site of 3114 S. 58th Street. (For The Record, p. 73)

Edison Elementary School (Tacoma); Public schools--Tacoma; Architectural drawings; Lance, McGuire & Muri (Tacoma); Architects;