San Antonio Independent School District (San Antonio ISD) operated Burnet Elementary School Annex at the location of 406 Wyoming Street from 1907 to 1967. Burnet Elementary School Annex was an annex operating for the original Burnet Elementary School that once located at 200 Lafitte Street. Burnet Elementary School Annex was also known as Burnet School Annex and Burnet Annex.
San Antonio ISD purchased a parcel of land called New City Block 695, east of Downtown and the River Walk in 1907 from the City of San Antonio, for an annex to serve Burnet Elementary School to alleviate overcrowding and a growing student population. Burnet Elementary School was located at 200 Lafitte Street at that time. (Ref: https://digital.utsa.edu/digital/collection/p9020coll4/id/545/)
Burnet Elementary School Annex first operated as a two-room brick annex for the Burnet Elementary School that was located on 200 Lafitte Street. Burnet Elementary School Annex was built as a masonry brick building with a height of 2 stories in 1907. Another two-room addition was added to the annex that same year and including the following year. (Ref: https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/38699850/)
Burnet Elementary School Annex educated primary students in grades 1
through 6. 1st grade was the lowest grade offered at this school annex.
There was no Kindergarten.
However by 1963, Burnet Elementary School Annex was getting overcrowded and needed more lots to build additions on. San Antonio ISD needed $350,000 dollars to buy additional land in order to construct 16 classrooms and cafeteria by then. (Ref: https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/29602409/)
San Antonio Independent School District passed a resolution to sell both Burnet Elementary School Annex and Burnet Elementary School in 1964. There were at least more than a hundred students attend classes at the Burnet Elementary School Annex. (Ref: https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/58582654/)
“San Antonio Independent School District trustees passed a resolution showing their intention to sell Burnet School and Annex which be within Project 5—HemisFair site, to the Urban Reneway Agency. Bill Jackson, UR assistant director, said the resolution was necessary to prove to the federal agency that all property in the project can be acquired for activation. The Burnet School and Annex house 600 children, 100 of whom will be relocated by the agency. Board members asked that agency planners immediately take steps to replace the build ing and facilities to accommodate the children who live al most entirely in Victoria Courts.”
Plans were being made by the San Antonio Urban Renewal Agency to relocate both Burnet Elementary School and Burnet Elementary School Annex (Burnet School Annex) in 1965. (Ref: https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/65759622/)
“Acquisition of land in the Civic Center Project by the San Antonio Urban Renewal Agency hit the 75 per cent goal Monday. The goal was reached with the processing of papers for the sale of Burnet Elementary School and Burnet school annex by the San Antonio Independent School District. The district’s board of trustees approved the final offer of the URA at its meeting last week. Acquisition of the two school parcels brought to 303 the number of parcels for which options have been signed or which the agency has gained control through condemnation hearings before special commissioners. There are 404 pieces of land in the Civic Center project. Total authorized price for the 303 parcels is $7,450,795. Negotiators of the agency’s real estate section hit the 50 per cent goal of 202 parcels on in the Civic Center project will be completed before Jan. 1, 1966, although some parcels will still be awaiting condemnation hearings at that time, Jack Curington, real estate manage of the Urban Renewal Agency reported. Current plans call for the land in the convention center site to be cleared, redeveloped and ready for construction work by Jan.”
Both Burnet Elementary School and Burnet Elementary School Annex were to be affected by the Urban Renewal Project. (Ref: https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/85047016/)
“To be affected are Burnet Elementary School at 200 Lafitte St. and Burnet Annex, 406 Wyoming St. The land the two units are on is in Urban Renewal Project 5 area, site of the city’s proposed convention. The two schools will be demolished and relocated on land yet to be purchased by the San Antonio District.”
Urban renewal is made San Antonio ISD relocate Burnet Elementary School Annex to the new Burnet Elementary School located at 211 Callaghan Avenue in 1967. The City of San Antonio approved a quit claim deed to San Antonio Independent School District on a lot at 211 Callaghan Avenue and 406 Barrera Street. The district bought the lot from the city for $1,447.52 dollars. (Ref: https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/56009067/)
“Approved a quit claim deed to the San Antonio Independent School District on a lot at 211 Callaghan Ave., where the new Burnet Elementary School is to be built. The district bought the lot from the city for $1,447.52”
The goal and agreements were reached with the processing of papers for the sale of Burnet Elementary School and Burnet School Annex by the San Antonio Independent School District in 1965. (Ref: https://newspaperarchive.com/san-antonio-express-may-25-1965-p-40/)
“The goal was reached with the processing of papers for the sale of Burnet Elementary School and Burnet school annex by the San Antonio Independent School District. The district's board of trustees approved the final offer of the URA at its meeting last week. Acquisition of the two school parcels brought to 303 the number of parcels for which options have been signed or which the agency has gained control through condemnation hearings before special commissioners. There are 404 pieces of land in the Civic Center project.”
The replacement of Burnet Elementary School was a result of the urban renewal program. The Burnet Elementary School Annex was being used on a rental basis from UR in 1966. (Ref: https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/29639434/)
“The replacement of Burnet Elementary School is a result of the urban renewal program in the HemisFair area. The old plant, being used this year on a rental basis from UR, had a very small playground. This situation is being remedied in the new school building which will be closer to Victoria and Callaghan.”
The building serving as Burnet Elementary School Annex was demolished to clear way for the construction of the HemisFair in 1968. No trace of this school annex remains today or can be unraveled.
The former Burnet Elementary School Annex was located at 406 Wyoming Street, San Antonio, Texas, US, 78203.
I went to both Burnets. 1st and 2nd grades to "Little Burnet" on Laffite and 3rd, 4th, 5th & 6th at "Big Burnet". In 4th grade (1963) many of us were bused to John B Hood Elementary due to overcrowding at Big Burnet. The day before President Kennedy was killed in Dallas I saw him in downtown San Antonio. I was in 4th grade. We were forced to move from victoria street in nov. 1965. Our house was where the Federal Courthouse is now. Big Burnet was where The Alamodome sits. I miss the Double Dip.
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I went to Burnet before they started building Hemisphere. My Teachers name was Ms Rudolph, she wasn't a very nice teacher, she was much older, I thought.
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