The Old Jacoby Creek School is an historic building located in
Bayside, California
Bayside is an unincorporated community south-southeast of Arcata, at an elevation of 33 feet (10 m) in Humboldt County, California. The ZIP Code is 95524, the area code is 707. The relatively large area was originally covered by large, ancie ...
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A
bell tower
A bell tower is a tower that contains one or more bells, or that is designed to hold bells even if it has none. Such a tower commonly serves as part of a Christian church, and will contain church bells, but there are also many secular bell tower ...
serves as the dominant architectural element and the structure contains both
weatherboard
Clapboard (), also called bevel siding, lap siding, and weatherboard, with regional variation in the definition of these terms, is wooden siding of a building in the form of horizontal boards, often overlapping.
''Clapboard'' in modern Americ ...
and shingling on the exterior.
History
The original school was active from 1903 to 1924 but the structure was not listed on the
National Register of Historic Places
The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic v ...
until 1985, by which time it had become an individual residence.
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In 2003, the building briefly housed the Laurel Tree Learning Center charter school. However, the school was forced to move because of serious code violations including no sprinklers or alarm system.
[Gurnon, 2003]
In 2007, the building was purchased and renovated (including the addition of solar power) by
Internet audio streaming and
podcast
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ing service provide
StreamGuysand currently houses their main business and support offices, as well as the business offices fo
Humboldt Hot Sauce the workout studio for Old School Hot Yoga, and two private apartments.
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Travel site with photographLaurel Tree Learning Center charter school
Bayside, California
School buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in California
School buildings completed in 1903
Towers completed in 1903
Bell towers in the United States
Educational institutions established in 1903
Educational institutions disestablished in 1924
Defunct schools in California
Schools in Humboldt County, California
1903 establishments in California
National Register of Historic Places in Humboldt County, California
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