519 E 28TH ST, TACOMA

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Hawthorne School

One of 11 technical drawings created by George Gove and Frederick Henry Heath on May 14, 1913. The school closed in 1963 and was turned over to the Puyallup Tribal Council before being demolished as a fire hazard in 1981.

George Gove was born in Rochester, MN in 1970 and arrived in Tacoma in 1908. From that point, Gove worked principly with Frederick Henry Heath as consulting architects for the Tacoma Board of Education. This would provide subsequent contracts for the Central School, Lincoln High School, the Stadium High School gymnasium and the first branch of the South Tacoma Library. There are contesting accounts regarding whether George Gove or Earl N. Dugan was the founding member of the Tacoma Society of Architects.

Frederick Henry Heath was born in LaCrosse, Wisconsin in 1861 and graduated from Powell's Academy, a parochial institution created by Rev William R. Powell in Caledonia, Minnesota. Heath moved to Tacoma in 1893 and formed a partnership with Ambrose James Russell and A. Walter Spaulding in 1901. It was during this partnership that Heath would become the School Architect for the Tacoma School District from 1903 through 1920, when he had moved on to partner with George Gove and draftsman Herbert A. Bell as Heath, Gove & Bell. Towards the end of his life, Heath collaborated with his son Frederick Jr. to help promote and sell his invention, "Heath Cubes," a square, hollow tile building material.

TPL-2868

ca. 1913. This is Hawthorne School shortly after opening in September of 1913. The entire population of the elementary school is lined up in front of the imposing building with Jessie Lithgow near the far right. Jessie's face has been circled and an arrow pointed toward the head. Hawthorne School was the first school in the Northwest with a German plan assembly hall. It had originated as East School in 1885 in temporary classrooms at a former store at South 24th & Pacific Ave. A new two-room building was constructed at East D & 31st streets in 1886 and classes were held with only one teacher. A six-room addition was authorized in 1889 by the school board and the school renamed Hawthorne after author Nathaniel Hawthorne. Enrollment grew with the admittance of Puyallup Indian Tribal children in 1896 and by 1904 Hawthorne was the school district's third largest school after Central and Lowell. When other schools were built in the eastern and southern parts of the city enrollment started to decline at Hawthorne in 1908. Nonetheless, a new Hawthorne School was built in 1913 at 28th & East F Sts. It held 438 students and four teachers, much smaller than Hawthorne in 1905 when enrollment reached 1,305 students. Hawthorne closed in 1963 and later the building housed early childhood education programs. For a few short years it was the Puyallup Indian Tribe's Chief Leschi School. The school was razed in June of 1981 to make way for the Tacoma Dome. (Olsen: For the Record, p. 53-54-article & various photographs)


Hawthorne School (Tacoma); Public schools--Tacoma--1910-1920; School children--Tacoma--1910-1920;

A1086-0

Graduation class at Hawthorne School on steps of school building in January of 1926. Hawthorne was one of the oldest schools in Tacoma, starting as East school in 1885 in a former store. Its enrollment peaked in the early 1900's when it was the district's 3rd largest school. As more schools opened in the east and south portions of the city, enrollment declined. This smaller school was opened in 1913 at 28th and E. F St. It was closed in 1963 and demolished in 1981 to make way for the Tacoma Dome. (WSHS)


Public schools--Tacoma--1920-1930; School children--Tacoma--1920-1930; Hawthorne School (Tacoma);

A-640

Hawthorne School graduating class, January 1925. The graduating class consists of nine students, five boys and four girls. (WSHS- negative A640-0)


Public schools--Tacoma; School children--Tacoma; Hawthorne School (Tacoma);

562-1

Hawthorne School 6A class photographed in June of 1935. Hawthorne served the east side of Tacoma as an education institution from 1885 (as East School) until its closure in 1963. (filed with Argentum)


Public schools--Tacoma--1930-1940; School children--Tacoma--1930-1940; Hawthorne School (Tacoma);

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Hawthorne School 6A class photographed in June of 1927. The students are posed in front of their eastside school which was built in 1913 from a design by Heath and Gove. The school was named after author Nathaniel Hawthorne. It closed in 1963 and was later demolished. (WSHS)


Public schools--Tacoma--1920-1930; School children--Tacoma--1920-1930; Hawthorne School (Tacoma);

A3509-2

Hawthorne School 6A class photographed in June of 1937. The ten students smile into the sunshine on the steps of their school, built in 1913 from a design by Heath and Gove. The school was razed in 1981.


Public schools--Tacoma--1930-1940; School children--Tacoma--1930-1940; Hawthorne School (Tacoma);

D10545-3

In December of 1940, Alvin Thorson was one of 140 men learning to operate welding machines in the basement of Hawthorne School, at the foot of McKinley Hill. The welding machines were kept busy 24 hours a day as men trained to become welders for the war effort at the Seattle-Tacoma Shipbuilding Co. The young Puyallup mechanic is wearing a welder's mask and holding the "stinger" of the welding machine. (T. Times 12/9/1940, pg. 1)


Thorson, Alvin; Welding; Hawthorne School (Tacoma); Seattle-Tacoma Shipbuilding Corp. (Tacoma); World War, 1939-1945--Economic & industrial aspects--Tacoma;

D10545-1

In December of 1940, an instructor demonstrates the use of a welding machine to his student in their makeshift classroom in the basement of the Hawthorne School. 140 men are participating in the classes that will produce wartime workers for the Seattle-Tacoma Shipbuilding Corp. The welding machines are operating 24 hours a day as the men prepare for their new jobs. Most already work in the shipyards as welders helpers. The instructors are master welders on loan from the shipyard. The costs of the program are being paid by the school district which will be reimbursed by the national defense training program. (T. Times 12/9/1940, pg. 1)


Welding; Hawthorne School (Tacoma); Seattle-Tacoma Shipbuilding Corp. (Tacoma); World War, 1939-1945--Economic & industrial aspects--Tacoma;

D27510-2

The students at Hawthorne Grade School presented a musical at the PTA meeting. The springtime program was directed by Gilda Holgerson. The festivities included most of the students at Hawthorne and featured an Easter parade, crowning of a festival queen and many chorus numbers. View of festival queen sitting among her attendants in front of a May Pole, she is wearing a floral crown (T. Times, 4/22/47, p. 5).


Public schools--Tacoma; School children--Tacoma; Rites & ceremonies--Tacoma; May poles--Tacoma; Hawthorne School (Tacoma); Parent-Teacher Association (Tacoma);