{"nrhp_refnum":"83003542","name":"Torrance School","other_names":["Torrance High School Annex"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"2200 W. Carson","address_restricted":false,"city":"Torrance","county":"Los Angeles County","state":"CA","lat":33.82817144200004,"lon":-118.31927513699998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1983-10-13","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Community Planning and Development","Education","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Torrance School is a two-story school building on the Torrance High School campus in Torrance, Los Angeles County, California, with a main northeast facade, a Tuscan portico and Spanish clay tile roof. The nomination is part of a thematic group of campus resources; the excerpt does not give the building's construction date or architect.","why_significant":"The reviewer's comments describe it as a 1923 building and cite its high-style design and its relationship to the educational program and other campus buildings. The surviving pages emphasize its restrained classical composition, intact original design and reversible alterations. Most of the surviving significance text covers other campus buildings, so the specific argument for this one is only partly legible.","narrative":"Torrance School is a two-story building on the Torrance High School campus in Torrance, California. It has a double-loaded corridor on both floors and a roof of Spanish clay tile. Ornament is restrained: two moulding-like rain gutters suggest an entablature where walls meet the roof. The main northeast facade follows a 2:1:2 proportion, with shallow rectangular recesses on either side of the entry. A seven-step staircase leads to a shallow Tuscan portico with two free-standing columns, finials above the columns instead of a pediment, and a shouldered window with a balcony railing above. The other facades have little decoration. Later changes include sun control louvers, solar glass doors and windows on the southeast side, and an exit and steel stair added to the southwest facade to meet building code. The form describes these changes as reversible. A reviewer's note links the school to a 1923 date, its high-style design, and its place in the program of the surrounding campus buildings. The surviving text is fragmentary.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":null,"criteria":[],"status_note":"Alterations include sun control louvers, solar glass doors and windows on the southeast side, and an added exit and steel staircase on the southwest facade. The form calls these alterations reversible.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:27.38016-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_CA/83003542.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/83003542/5f4295cbb8-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/83003542/5f4295cbb8-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"LCfam","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Torrance_High_School_entrance.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">LCfam</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Torrance_High_School_entrance.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/123857608","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torrance_School","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7826927"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/california/los-angeles-county/torrance-school-83003542/"}