A low, modernist building at San Francisco State College’s newly established Lake Merced (19th Avenue) campus in the early 1950s. The sandy, largely undeveloped foreground reflects the campus’s formative years, when construction was still underway and landscaping had yet to be completed. Larger academic buildings rise in the background, illustrating the gradual expansion that followed the College’s move from the overcrowded Haight & Buchanan site in 1953.
