The old front door is behind these "temporary" buildings. That one is labeled "main office".
According to the "Architectural and Historical Resources of the Sunset District:The Oceanside Neighborhood" published by SPEAK and available in web from at the Western Neighborhoods Project, this was the Francis Scott Key Annex, built in the late 19- teens or 20's, with 12" redwood planks on the upper floor. (Here is the current Francis Scott Key Elementary).
You can imagine it was quite lovely.
Here's a photo from the S.F.P.L. Collection, and the same view today:
1 comment:
Thank you for posting these great photos. Francis Scott Key was my first school in the late 1940s. I started out at the Annex, then moved on to the main school in fourth grade.
Kids had a lot more freedom then. When I was entering kindergarten, my bachelor uncle walked me to the Annex on the first day from our home on 48th Ave. After that, I guess he overestimated my directional abilities and left me to find the school on my own on the second day of school. They eventually found me a few blocks over on 47th Ave., standing in front of a big brown and yellow house, trying to figure out what had happened to the school yard.
Could I use one of these photos for my blog, Remember? I am writing a post on the role of cars in my childhood. I would give credit to you, of course.
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