2300 SE Harrison Street
Milwaukie Junior High School on September 27, 2008
This building opened in November 1936 as the new Milwaukie Junior High School. The Georgian Revival style brick building was built as a Works Progress Administration (WPA) project and was designed by federally-employed architect L.L. Dougan with resident architect Walter E. Kelly.
Milwaukie Junior High School on September 27, 2008
The building replaced an earlier school, which was located across the street on the current site of the Milwaukie City Hall.
Milwaukie Junior High School on September 27, 2008
The building is located on a 7.2-acre parcel intersected by Spring Creek, which continues to flow under 21st Avenue to the north end of downtown.
Milwaukie Junior High School on September 27, 2008
The building’s Georgian-style elements include the bilateral symmetry of the façade, brick construction, low-pitched hip roof, small-paned rectangular windows, porthole windows, eave returns, quoins, and round-headed door openings with fanlights.
Portland Waldorf School Sign on September 27, 2008
The Milwaukie Junior High School was renovated in 1978. After the 2002 school year, the Milwaukie Junior High School Building was vacated and sold to the Portland Waldorf School (established 1982).
Portland Waldorf School Plaza on September 27, 2008
This plaza features a flagpole & a stone from Christopher Schaefer from the Dedication to the Portland Waldorf School from September 2002 reading:
May this school be dedicated to the love and education of children.
May it nourish them and foster in them a love of truth, beauty and goodness.
May it help them become free, creative, moral human beings.
I ask the spirits of strength, light and soul to help that it be so.
Portland Waldorf School Monument on September 27, 2008
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My father was a member of the first class taught in the new building! He and his classmates carried books, desks and other supplies from the old location to the new building, and for the next twenty years the woodshop class used material gathered from the old 'City Hall' site in their projects! I still have a small bookshelf he made there when he was 13 years old. When I went there in the 1970s the building made the list of Twelve Worst Public Buildings in Clackamas County for the sheer amount of asbestos it held. Hope they got rid of that because - dang.
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