Bryant Elementary School

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In June 2000, Bryant Elementary, a historic landmark school, closed its doors for a year to be thoroughly remodeled and made ready for the needs of the next century. It reopened in time to welcome students in the fall of 2001. As representatives from the school district, the school and community plan for the future, we also pause to look back and preserve the rich memories of the past. More than eighty years of history have passed since the first school was erected on this site, history that touched our school in many ways. In 1918, much of the neighborhood around the Bryant School was still a quiet area of small farms and woodlands. Yet earlier in that same decade, the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul and a branch line of the Union Pacific railroads had arrived in Seattle, operating out of the new Union Street Station. The Lake Washington Ship Canal had been built, and the Duwamish Channel dredged to accommodate ocean-going vessels. The city was set for growth. During the First World War, twenty shipyards employed over 40,000 men and sawmills ran at full capacity. Along with new workers came new students - 10,000 new students arrived in Seattle's schools between 1915 and 1919. The first Bryant School on the present school grounds was built in December 1918 on what is now the southwest corner of the playfield. It was one of four "Liberty Buildings" erected by the school district during World War I. Arising from the conflicting pressures of a growing population and the need...

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