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Title
C117132-39
Date(s)
- 1910 (Creation)
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(1919-1980)
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ca. 1910. The original Horace Mann school at 5234 South J Street was built in 1901 as a simple two story, four room building. Over the next eight years as the school age population on Tacoma's south end increased two additions were added to the building. By 1910 it was the the imposing structure shown in this photograph. It was named for the noted American educator Horace Mann, who revolutionized public school instruction and established the first normal school for teacher training. A new Mann School was built nearby at 52nd & So. "K" in 1953 and the old school was demolished. (Copy of glass plate was made on October 3, 1958.) (Olsen: For the Record, p. 83)
Horace Mann School (Tacoma); Public schools--Tacoma--1900-1910;