Lakeview School
- This article is about the former Birmingham school. For the private school, see Lakeview Day School, for the Tuscaloosa County school, see Lake View Elementary School.
Lakeview School is a former Birmingham City School located at 2801 Clairmont Avenue. It was planned as early as 1890, but had to be postposed due to the economic fallout from the Panic of 1893. The original red brick building, designed by Wheelock, Joy and Wheelock architects, opened in 1901 for grades 1-4, with 12 additional classrooms for grades 5-7 completed in 1909.
A playground, later named Underwood Park for Oscar Underwood, was constructed across 28th Street. The park was later moved to allow for expansion of St Vincent's Hospital.
Artists Frank and Martha Anderson were commissioned through the Federal Art Project of the Works Progress Administration to produce a mural of scenes of discovery for the Lakeview School. Branko Medenica's sculpture, "Resurgence" was installed at the school in 1976. Around that time the school was revitalized as an alternative school offering an "Arts-in-Education" curriculum.
The school building was added to the National Register of Historic Places on December 17, 1977.
The building currently houses offices for Leo Ticheli Productions, Boyd Fernambucq & Vincent and others.
Principals
- Nannie Davis, 1901-
- J. R. Gardner, c. 1940
- Osborne Farr, c. 1950
References
- "Lakeview School" typescript history (c. 1958) Birmingham Board of Education, Research Department, microfilm at Birmingham Public Library Archives, AR454
- Satterfield, Carolyn Green (1976) Historic Sites of Jefferson County, Alabama. Birmingham: Jefferson County Historical Commission/Gray Printing Company