Santa Rosa High School, 1235 Mendocino Avenue, Santa Rosa, CA

The capital was secured in a 1923 election, and the classic brick building on Mendocino Avenue opened for classes in January 1925.
All the original brick buildings were completed by 1935, although Burke Hall, the agriculture building, constructed by the WPA, wasn’t finished until 1940.
Santa Rosa High School is one of the oldest high schools in all of California, the ninth high school chartered in the state's history. SRHS was the only public high school for Santa Rosa from 1874 to 1958. Santa Rosa Junior College (SRJC), located on the adjacent property, was actually a part of Santa Rosa High School from 1918 to 1927.^[1]
The school had several locations. The previous location on Humboldt Street burned to the ground in 1921.

The school was moved to its current location and opened in 1924.
Capital was secured in a 1923 election, and the classic brick building on Mendocino Avenue opened for classes in January 1925.
All the original brick buildings were completed by 1935, although Burke Hall, the agriculture building, constructed by the WPA, wasn’t finished until 1940.

The current school's design Brick Gothic, with soaring white columns towering over the triple entryway and the addition of gargoyles in niches near the roof, was created by W. H. Weeks in 1922.

Santa Rosa High School was used for several Hollywood movies, including Peggy Sue Got Married and Inventing the Abbotts. For the filming of Peggy Sue Got Married, the production company paid for a complete restoration of the school's aging gothic facade, including repair and replacement of the many gargoyle figures.(1)

Director Wes Craven applied for the use of Santa Rosa High School and made a verbal contract with the principal of the school for the filming of Scream (film). Just days before filming was to begin, the school board denied permission for the use of the school, citing concern for the younger, more sensitive students' reactions to images of horror and death in their school's hallways. In response, the city, previously popular as a film setting, was blacklisted in Hollywood and Craven included in the closing credits of Scream (film) the note, "And no thanks whatsoever to the Santa Rosa City School District Governing Board." Ironically, a Hollywood horror writer, Daniel Farrands, was a 1987 graduate of Santa Rosa High.



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