Photograph (B/W) Tempe Union High School Fire - 1955
Date1/13/1955
MediumPaper
Dimensions5 x 7 in. (12.7 x 17.8 cm)
ClassificationsDocumentary Artifact
Catalog number2004.45.12
DescriptionPhotograph of the 1955 fire that consumed Tempe Union High School. Note smoke coming from the 3rd floor windows.Photograph shows fire that consumed the original Tempe High School on the corner of University Drive & Mill Avenue on January 13, 1955.
This building was no longer in use as a school campus at the time of the fire. The new Tempe Union High School located at Broadway and Mill Avenue opened in 1953, and all students transferred to the new campus. The architect for the new school campus was Kemper Goodwin.
Status
Not on view
circa 1925
circa 1927
