Northside - City of Riverside

Streets (outside the survey boundaries; Department of Schoolhouse Planning
1978:n.p).
Fremont Elementary School (constructed from 1917-1970), Main Street frontage
From the late 1940s to the early 1970s, several additions and alterations were made
to the elementary school campus. In 1949, architect E. Heitschmidt designed an
administration building and six classrooms, which were completed by contractors
Hill and Hunt in August 1950. Part of the project included upgrades to an existing
concrete pipe storm drain beneath the new classrooms. The architectural firm
Ruhnau, Evans, and Brown (later Ruhnau, Evans, and Steinmann) designed three
additions to the growing school complex in the 1950s and 1960s. Two classroom
buildings were completed by contractor M. Wilkerson in December 1955, and in July
1966, the Hoefer Construction Company added a three-classroom wing, a kitchen,
and lunch shelter, and enlarged the parking lot on Main Street. This addition
accommodated displaced schoolchildren from the abandoned Lincoln Elementary
School (formerly Sixth Street School) and allowed hot lunches to begin being served
on campus. In March 1969, the architectural team designed an air-conditioned
administration, IMC, and three-classroom complex and also created plans to convert
the 1950 administration building into a special education classroom, which was
completed by contractor Lloyd Lambeth in July 1970 (Department of Schoolhouse
Planning 1978:n.p).
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