Eagle Rock's First School
Eagle Rock’s First School in 1889 It was built by community volunteers in 1886 near Colorado Boulevard just east of Caspar Avenue. The teacher, shown at rear, was Will Frackleton. The donor of this photo was fifth from the left in front. Previously, Lida Hutchins taught seventeen pupils in 1884 in a barn on Addison Way owned by Milton Brown. The next year Miss Augusta Stevens moved the class to her own house. (Courtesy the Elena Frackelton Murdock family)
The First Schoolhouse Relocated The school was moved northeast around 1905 to the foot of the hill where Chickasaw Avenue now meets Maywood Avenue. Two rooms were added to accommodate a growing student body. A shaded outdoor lunch area was added to the right. (Courtesy the Elena Frackelton Murdock family)
Eagle Rock School (Central School)
This building replaced the tw room building in 1909. It was swifly outgrown.
Rendering of the new Eagle Rock School 1917
New brick Buildings of Eagle Rock Elementary 1927
The original Rockdale School built in 1909, is shown after a flood. Rockdale was then a part of the Annandale School District.
The new brick Rockdale School built in the 1920's
San Raphael School (West School)
The first San Raphael School built in 1917
The new building built in the 1920's
Dahlia Heights School (East School)
The first Dahlia heights school was built as a result of a 1917 bond issue in the Eagle Rock District. It added an east and West School to the existing Eagle Rock School.
The second Dahlia Heights building was added in 1927 as a result of a Los Angeles citywide bond issue.
It was torn down in 1968 along with the first building due to earthquake concerns. com
These students in 1966 hold a rendering of the new school while standing on the steps of the old building, then used as a kindergarten.
Old Delevan Drive. This building was located on the street of the same name to the east of the York valley, on the other side of the hills. It was built in 1926. The 1971 earthquake caused the school to be declared unsafe and the students to be moved to bungalows. The building was demolished soon after. Only the ornate cupola was preserved to be reused. The grounds remained the same and the school garden is still in use. (Courtesy Ruth Fairrington.)
New Delevan Drive. In 1973, ground was broken for the new school. The cost was $560,000 for the 11-classroom, two-story building. Contrary to the rendering, the cupola was placed on top of a bungalow to the rear of the main building. (Rendering by Harry T. Macdonald and Associates, Courtesy LAUSD Art and Artifact Collection.)
Toland Way Elementary, Circa 1938. In a similar view, the original masonry building, opened in 1925, stands in front of the western York Valley. Occidental College is on the upper right. Trees now conceal Eagle Rock Boulevard on the left. Below, the students construct an outdoor theater behind the school, one of many in the area. (Courtesy LAUSD Art and Artifact Collection.)
New Toland Way. The old school was replaced by this building, probably in the late 1950s (Rendering by Parker and Parker Architects and Structural Engineers, Courtesy LAUSD Art and Artifact Collection.)
Future site of Yosemite Park & Eagle Rock High School ca 1925
The entry and library of the new Eagle Rock High School
The new Eagle Rock High School in 1927
The New Boy’ Gym (now the large gym) The first permanent modernist structure on the campus, built in the early sixties, provided a sky lit gym with folding bleachers, coaches’ offices, a classroom, and locker rooms. At the same time new parking lots were built and the closure of Oak Grove Avenue, which ran through the campus, provided additional space for a growing school. (Courtesy of the LAUSD Art and Artifact Collection, Architect Louis A. Thomas, Rendering by Stan Johnson)
Architects Rendering of the New School 1970 The original school buildings ,though restorable, were torn down for safety reasons. A new campus was designed in contemporary “brutalist “style and built to segue with the demolition. The new classroom buildings were nestled against the hills, with the grounds and smaller buildings forming a garden court in front. On the left is the new small gym. The corner of the auditorium is at right.
First Phase of the New School Like the old, the new school was built in two stages. The first classroom and administrative office building are complete here ending with stair wells on the left which will begin the second classroom block. The sheltered courtyard in the center forms an eating area in front of the cafeteria. A second story bridge, here unroofed will connect the two buildings in reflection of the old school.
(Courtesy of the LAUSD Art and Artifact Collection)
The Skeleton of Swan Hall Dormitory Alumni Avenue stretches to York Boulevard and Campus Road wraps around. We are standing on the hill where Orr Hall dormitory will be built and looking down the valley, which will become Glassell Park, to the Los Angeles River in the distance. Unseen to our right are Johnson and Fowler Halls, The area in the center, just over Ralph Rogers house, is the location of an artesian spring, now tapped by Sparkletts Water Company (Courtesy of College Archives—Occidental College Library)
Occidental College from the Hills Northwest The first three buildings are completed but unoccupied in 1914. Eagle Rock Boulevard is the divided street running left to right in the center of the photo. The street layout is as it is today. Johnson and Fowler Halls, the paired buildings, were classrooms and administration. Swan Hall in front was the first dormitory. This was unincorporated land located south of the City of Eagle Rock. (Contributed by Louise White Puthuff, postcard photograph by B.D. Jackson)
Occidental College ca 1935