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Photographer: Andrew Ruppenstein
Taken: December 25, 2015
Caption: Riverview Union High School Marker
Additional Description: "The Riverview Union High School property covers 2.84 acres of the original site provided by the C. A. Hooper Co., July 6, 1910. This Renaissance Revival architectural classification school building was designed by Gumming and Weymouth, architects of Oakland, California. The building is two stories tall and built of non-reinforced brick. It is 121 feet long by 79 feet wide. The total floor space is 14,500 square feet. The general building contractor was the Continental Fireproofing Company. J. C. Hurley contracted for the heating and ventilating system. The building was dedicated in November of 1911. In 1915, a Manual Training building was built on the north side of the property behind the main building. It has been removed. The main building was used as a high school from 1911 to 1931. It was leased in1936 by the Bureau or Reclamation and sold to Fibreboard Products Inc. in the 1940s for their Research Division. Several inventions critical to W.W.II were developed here. In 1975, the Riverview Fire Protection District bought the building for there administrative offices. They used the building until 1995...." - National Register of Historic Places Registration Form
Submitted: December 27, 2015, by Andrew Ruppenstein of Lamorinda, California.
Database Locator Identification Number: p342833
File Size: 1.933 Megabytes

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