Roosevelt School, Set 4 Sheet 3
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- 7/8/1921
Part of Lost Tacoma Project Collection
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Roosevelt School, Set 4 Sheet 3
Part of Lost Tacoma Project Collection
Part of Lost Tacoma Project Collection
One of eighteen technical drawings for the Roosevelt School, created on July 8, 1921 by Hill, Mock and Griffin. After acts of arson, vandalism and identification of structural deficiencies which led to the gymnasium collapsing, the structure was demolished in 1986.
Irwin (sometimes Irwyn) Horatio Hill was born in Illinois and graduated from the University of Illinois and Chicago Art Institute. After moving to Tacoma in 1903, Hill partnered with George Bullard, then Woodroofe and Griffin, then Hill, Mock & Griffin and finally Mock & Morrison. Hill was a member of the Tacoma Park Board and the Tacoma Rotary Club.
Ernest Thornton Mock is one of the few other architects in this collection that were born in Tacoma. Mock apprenticed for twelve years under Bullard & Russell before partnering with Irwin H. Hill and Jack Griffin in 1918. When Griffin left to pursue contracts in Lewis County, he was replaced by Nelson J. Morrison and shared a space in the Perkins Building. Mock's death in 1950 inspired the 88th annual reunion of the Scottish Rite Masons in Tacoma, to honor his 25 years of service.
Jack Griffin was born in Los Angeles, CA and graduated from the University of Santa Clara. After moving to Seattle, Griffin formed a partnership with Irwin H. Hill, Arnott Woodroofe and later with Ernest T. Mock. When Griffin left the partnership in 1924, he would work extensively in the Lewis County area, creating courthouses, schools, churches and theaters with distinctive Spanish Colonial Revival and Mission Revival Style influences.
Part of Marvin Boland Photographs
A classroom full of children at Roosevelt Elementary School watch attentively as an adult male, possibly the teacher, conducts a lesson on pedestrian safety in April of 1925. He is holding up a large illustration of two boys who have apparently hitched a ride on the back of a wagon and are in the process of leaping off, right in the path of an oncoming train or trolley. Photograph taken on behalf of the Tacoma Railway & Power Co.
School children--Tacoma--1920-1930; Roosevelt Elementary School (Tacoma); Public schools--Tacoma--1920-1930; Classrooms--Tacoma--1920-1930;
Part of Marvin Boland Photographs
Seven small children stand in front of the massive Roosevelt Elementary School, 3550 E. Roosevelt Ave., on January 12, 1928. This was the second building on this site as the original structure, built in 1904, was sold and removed upon the construction of a new brick building in 1921. Roosevelt Elementary was named in honor of President Theodore Roosevelt. The second Roosevelt Elementary would be subsequently remodeled and added onto in later years. BU-11341
Roosevelt Elementary School (Tacoma); Public schools--Tacoma--1920-1930;
Part of Richards Studio Photographs
In December of 1937, the second and third grade classes at Roosevelt School, 3550 East Roosevelt Avenue, decorated a "Bird Christmas Tree" in the school yard for their feathered friends. Clifford Matousek, Beverly Jo Companoli and Edmund Wright were pictured, left to right, replenishing the tree's supply of special bird friendly "ornaments." The ornaments consisted of strings of popcorn, pieces of bread carved into animals and citrus fruit shells filled with birdseed and sunflower seeds. The schoolchildren made sure the little fliers would not go hungry during the Christmas season. (T. Times 12/20/1937, pg. 1) (filed with Argentum)
Matousek, Clifford, Companoli, Beverly Jo; Wright, Edmund; School children--Tacoma--1930-1940; Roosevelt Elementary School (Tacoma); Public schools--Tacoma--1930-1940; Christmas trees--Tacoma;
Part of Richards Studio Photographs
School children are using a library that appears to be built into the end of a hallway at Roosevelt School. Bookshelves have been built in under the windows and along the side walls before doorways enter the hall. A small card catalog sits against the right wall and a cart filled with additional books is against the left wall. A small table sits in the middle.
Roosevelt Elementary School (Tacoma); Public schools--Tacoma--1950-1960; Libraries--Tacoma;