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DeLong Elementary, at So. 12th and Moorlands, was designed by Lance, McGuire & Muri to accomodate 280 students. It would serve the area north and east of Fircrest and relieve overcrowding at Franklin and Jefferson. The one story school was of wood framing with brick veneer facing. It had eight classrooms plus a cafeteria, 65x66 ft playroom, clinic, administrative offices, teachers' lounge, kitchen, boiler room and 3 storerooms. (TNT 8/9/1953, pg. C-12)

DeLong Elementary School (Tacoma); Public schools--Tacoma--1950-1960; Building construction--Tacoma--1950-1960; Progress photographs--1950-1960;

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Construction of DeLong School. DeLong was planned and named in 1949 after Arctic explorer George Washington DeLong. The school opened in February of 1954 and students from the overcrowded Franklin and Jefferson schools moved into the new glass and brick school. The school accommodated about 60 children from Jefferson and 100 from Franklin. Parents protested that some of these students would have to walk over one mile through brush, bushes, a swamp and a completely undeveloped area without the benefit and safety of sidewalks.The school opened despite the lack of promised streets and sidewalks in the undeveloped area. The school was enlarged in 1959. Photo ordered by St. Paul & Tacoma Lumber Co. ("For the Record," by Winnifred Olsen, TNT 8/27/1953, pg. B-2 & TNT 8/28/1953, pg. 1)

DeLong Elementary School (Tacoma); Public schools--Tacoma--1950-1960; Building construction--Tacoma--1950-1960; Progress photographs--1950-1960;

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Progress photographs of DeLong School, for the DFPA. The school was one story of wooden frame construction with a brick veneer facing. It was built to accomodate 280 students and was needed to relieve overcrowding. The school would serve the area north and east of Fircrest. The school was projected to open in February of 1954. The transfer of students to DeLong was protested by parents in two key areas bordered by 6th Ave., So. 9th, So. Proctor and So. Monroe, and 6th Ave., So 8th, So. Monroe and So. Mason. These children would be walking almost twice as far to get to DeLong as to their current school through rough terrain. No school busses were scheduled on this route. (TNT 8/9/1953, pg. C-12)

DeLong Elementary School (Tacoma); Public schools--Tacoma--1950-1960; Building construction--Tacoma--1950-1960; Progress photographs--1950-1960;

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Progress photographs of DeLong School, for DFPA. DeLong, unlike the other new schools built at this time, featured a unique sloping roof of aluminum coated mineral build up with an aluminum continuous skylight that provided natural light to the school. Additional lighting was fluorescent. Warter Constructions served as general contractor. The school was at the center of controversy, since some students would be transferred from their closest school Jefferson to DeLong. The walk to DeLong would be over one mile through rough undeveloped terrain where students would walk in the streets because there were no sidewalks on So. 12th. (TNT 8-9-1953, pg. C-12. TNT 8/27/1953, pg. B-2 & TNT 8/28/1953, pg. 1)

DeLong Elementary School (Tacoma); Public schools--Tacoma--1950-1960; Building construction--Tacoma--1950-1960; Progress photographs--1950-1960;