Fig.1 - ROOSEVELT SCHOOL – 1909 HISTORIC PHOTO looking east from Rosemont Ave. (in foreground) with 1907 elementary school building at right, 1909 kindergarten bungalow at left (from Pasadena Museum of History)
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Fig.2 – ROOSEVELT SCHOOL – 1931 SANBORN MAP depicting the Roosevelt School in its original neighborhood setting with 2 street frontages and with eastward cross-axial street (north at upper right) Fig.3 – ROOSEVELT SCHOOL – 1951 SANBORN MAP
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1968 WITH NEIGHBORHOOD SETTING INTACT 1975 DEPICTING FREEWAY DEVELOPMENT 1988 WITH COMPLETED FREEWAY CONSTRUCTION INCLUDING ABANDONMENT OF VERNON AVE.
AND ROSEMONT AVE.
Figs.4-6 – ROOSEVELT SCHOOL (highlighted) – FROM USGS MAPS (north is up) Roosevelt Historical Evaluation Exhibits – Page 3
Fig.7 – California school building ad (Architect & Engineer, March 1950, p5) Fig.8 – Sunshine School, Fresno, 1949-52 (Arch. Forum, Aug.1952, pp.116-17) Roosevelt Historical Evaluation Exhibits – Page 4
Fig.9 – Madison Elementary School, Pomona (Weston and Marston, 1953) Fig.10 – Vista Elementary School, Vista, CA, 1950 (from June 1951 Arch. Record, p129) Fig.11 – Katherine Finchey Elementary School, Palm Springs, CA, 1950 (from Aluminum in Modern Architecture Volume 1, 1956, pp.164-165) Roosevelt Historical Evaluation Exhibits – Page 5
Fig.12 – ROOSEVELT SCHOOL - 2024 AERIAL illustrating extent of campus wide changes KEY
PARCEL BOUNDARY LINES
1967-73 SITE & BUILDING REMOVALS
1972-73 SITE & BUILDING ADDITIONS
& ALTERATIONS
2003 BUILDING ADDITIONS
2003-14 SITE ALTERATIONS
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Fig.13 – ROOSEVELT SCHOOL – 2025 AERIAL VIEW (Google Earth, north is up) Roosevelt Historical Evaluation Exhibits – Page 7
2024 VIEW OF REPLACEMENT FRONT ENTRY & REMOVED LOUVERS 2024 VIEW OF INFILLED & REPLACED FRONT ENTRY Figs.14-17 (clockwise from upper left) – ROOSEVELT SCHOOL VIEWS ORIG. RENDERING OF FRONT ENTRY & LOUVERED DESIGN c1970 VIEW OF 1953 BLDG. LOUVERS Roosevelt Historical Evaluation Exhibits – Page 8
Fig.18 – ROOSEVELT SCHOOL – 1953 EXTERIOR BUILDING ELEVATIONS ILLUSTRATING REMOVAL OF ORIGINAL EXTERIOR ELEMENTS (IN RED) Roosevelt Historical Evaluation Exhibits – Page 9
Fig.19 – 1953 EXTERIOR BUILDING ELEVATIONS ILLUSTRATING THE EXTENT OF ADDITIONS (IN BLUE) Roosevelt Historical Evaluation Exhibits – Page 10
Fig.20 – ROOSEVELT SCHOOL - 1953 BUILDING ELEVATIONS ILLUSTRATING THE EXTENT OF REMOVALS AND ADDITIONS Roosevelt Historical Evaluation Exhibits – Page 11
Figs.21-24 (clockwise from upper left) – ROOSEVELT SCHOOL – 2024 VIEWS OF SUBSTANTIAL ALTERATIONS AT INTERIOR
ENCLOSED & LOWERED ENTRY LOBBY
ENCLOSED & LOWERED ORIG. EXTERIOR WALKWAYS (ALL)
ALTERED CLASSROOMS (ALL)
1973 ADDITION THAT INFILLED ORIG. PLAY YARD
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Figs.25-27 (clockwise from top) – ROOSEVELT SCHOOL – 2024-25 VIEWS OF CAMPUS 2003 WEST BUILDING
1972 NORTH BUILDING 2025 STORM DAMAGE AT 1953 CENTER WING Roosevelt Historical Evaluation Exhibits – Page 13
Fig.28 – ROOSEVELT SCHOOL – 2024 view of school frontage from terminus of N. Pasadena Ave. (looking south) Roosevelt Historical Evaluation Exhibits – Page 14