San Francisco Landmarks
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Main facade on west side of the building
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Main facade brick work and fenestration
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West and south facades
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South facade
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South facade fenestration
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South facade fenestration detail
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27 September 2023
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Theodore Roosevelt Middle School
460 Arguello Boulevard
Built 1929-1930
The Theodore Roosevelt Middle School was built during the Golden Age of School Construction in San Francisco. Between 1920 and 1930, the city issued bonds to build fifty public schools.
Designed by architect Timothy Pflueger in an idiosyncratic Dutch-German Expressionist style, the Theodore Roosevelt Middle School is the only example of this avant‐garde style in San Francisco, and possibly in the United States.
The school contains three well‐preserved New Deal murals, a pair in the main lobby by Horatio Nelson Poole and one in the auditorium by George Wilson Walker.
Source: Adapted from the Theodore Roosevelt Middle School Landmark Designation Report approved by the San Francisco Board of Supervisors on March 5, 2019.
