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Hillside Elementary School is a former public elementary school that now houses the Berkeley campus of the German International School of Silicon Valley (GISSV). The site is located in the hills of Berkeley, California on the block bounded by Le Roy Avenue, Buena Vista Way and La Loma Avenue. Hillside is registered as a local historic landmark. In 1982 it was added to the National Register of Historic Places (#82000961).〔(berkeleyheritage.com )〕 ==History== Hillside first opened in the Fall of 1901 on the nearby southwest corner of Le Roy Avenue and Virginia Street.〔(History of the Berkeley Public Schools, Cowan, 1918, Internet Archives )〕〔(Landmark Application )〕 This first Hillside, constructed under the auspices of the newly formed Hillside Club,〔(The shrinking legacy of Volney D. Moody and his heirs, Daniella Thompson, BAHA, 2008 )〕 for the Berkeley Public Schools, was one of the hundreds of structures that was destroyed by the 1923 Berkeley fire. The school was temporarily relocated, from late 1923 until August of 1926, to the University School (1414 Walnut Street) while a new school building was constructed. The Berkeley School District built the present structure in 1925 on the site of several homes that were destroyed by the same fire that destroyed the original Hillside. Some additions were made in the 1930s and again in 1964-65. The 1930s work included some upgrades pursuant to the Field Act which resulted from the 1933 Long Beach earthquake. In the early 1970s, Hillside became a primary school (K-3) as part of a district-wide re-organization. In 1983, the school district closed Hillside〔(Minutes, School Board Meeting, May 4, 1983 )〕 because of a declining school age population, and because it sits near or on the Hayward Fault. The Berkeley Montessori School (since renamed The Berkeley School) leased part of the site from the school district until 2003 when it moved to its new location in the old Berkeley Santa Fe depot on University Avenue. The Berkeley Chess School has also leased space since the closing of the public school. In 2012, GISSV purchased the site from the Berkeley Unified School district. Throughout, area residents have used Hillside's playground as a de facto neighborhood park since it was constructed. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Hillside Elementary School」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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