Sacramento Junior College Annex and Extensions

Six New Deal-era buildings on the Sacramento City College campus form a historic district of about 11 acres, designed by Sacramento architect Harry J. Devine Sr. with Public Works Administration grants. Three buildings make up the Annex: the Library and Classrooms, the Gymnasium and the Fine Arts Building, now the Auditorium. They were built around a quadrangle once partly framed by 1920s Romanesque Revival buildings, since razed. The Extensions followed about two years later and include the Engineering Technology Building and the Aeronautical Addition. The buildings share PWA Moderne styling, with reinforced concrete softened by brick, plus Mayan, Zigzag and arcade details. The Library has Mayan-style terra cotta panels and a stylized column, and the Auditorium lobby holds a restored Ralph Stackpole mural of 1930s Sacramento occupations. Despite window replacements and additions, the group keeps its overall integrity. It was listed for architecture and for its ties to government relief work and social history in the late 1930s.