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Item
Title
A47819-30
Date(s)
- 1950-03-07 (Creation)
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Name of creator
(1919-1980)
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Scope and content
An exterior view of Mont Downing Elementary School designed by Lea, Pearson and Richards, Architects. The school was named after Mont Downing, a Tacoma educator who had been an elementary school principal 13 years and district assistant superintendent 11 years. The building had eight classrooms, an auditorium/lunchroom and a large basement playing area; the building cost was $350,000. (TNT, 8/19/1949, p.10) TPL-1558.
Public schools--Tacoma; Mont Downing Elementary School (Tacoma); Architects; Lea, Pearson & Richards (Tacoma);