Marina Middle School, San Francisco

This is Marina Middle School on the corner of Fillmore and Chestnut Streets in San Francisco. It was constructed in 1936 and designed by George Kelham and William Day.

The main school building facing Fillmore St has the names of great men (and they are all men) of science and art. Comte, Raphael, Plato, Galileo, Edison, Homer, Wagner, Euclid, Watt, Emerson, Moses, Milton, Darwin, Newton, Pasteur and Dante. The rear of the building overlooking the schoolyard also bears names including Aristotle and Washington. I didn't list all the names on that side so I wonder if any women are recognised there.

The decoration along the roofline incorporates bear's heads into an Art Deco band. Elsewhere panel at street level include lion's and ram's heads.

At one end of the building there is a frieze of a male figure carrying a torch and at the other end a female figure with a book.

Reference: San Francisco & 20th Century Design Tour Book, organised by The 20th Century Society of the Carolina Mountains