Carrington Hall - Redwood City, CA - People-Named Places on Waymarking.com

About the person:"Otis M. Carrington is best remembered as one of the world’s foremost composers of operettas for children. In 1912, Mr. Carrington wrote “The Windmills of Holland”. It was the first of more than forty operettas to come from his hand, and led American music critics like Harold Rogers of the Christian Science Monitor to call him “The Leader of the Operatic Field of Educational Music”.

Mr. Carrington joined the teaching staff at Sequoia High School in 1907 as the art and music instructor, and went on to head the school’s music department he developed (with its famous choral programs, including The Treble Clef), teaching an unprecedented forty-three years.

Between 1923 and 1945 student productions of his operettas were standard fare at Sequoia High and at Redwood City elementary schools. Sequoia was the testing ground for his work. Carrington and B.E. Myers, an instructor in the Commercial Arts Department at Sequoia, published and distributed the work as Myers and Carrington, School Operettas. The success of these children’s operettas in evidenced by their over twenty five thousand presentations worldwide."http://www.hmdb.org/Marker.asp?Marker=41602

About the place: "The Auditorium is a two-story reinforced concrete building, basically rectangular in plan resting orija concrete foundation. It has a one-story wood frame music building addition to the rear (SW), also on a concrete foundation. The exterior wall cladding of the auditorium and music wing is stucco. The auditorium is in a basilica form. The NE facing facade is symetrical, and is characterized by a massive central entry in the shape of a triumphal arch, with one-story tiled shed roofed bays on either side. The forebay of the deeply recessed compound arch entry springs from a pair of decorative lintels supported on cast cement columns and pilasters with Corinthian capitals. Spiral columns articulate the inner walls of the arch. The massive rectangular double wooden doors have glazed panels. The word AUDITORIUM incised into a cement spandrai separates the doors from a fixed arched window with turned wooden grille above. A decorative frieze of cherubs in arcaded niches caps the entry below a slightly overhanging hipped roof, covered in Spanish tile. Three arched windows, springing from two spiral columns with slightly projecting cast cement hoods, are found directly above the shed roofed bays on either side of the main entry. They are inset with pierced wooden screens. Single, fixed diamond patterned windows are centered high in each of these side bays, which f unction as bathrooms." (visit link)

Year it was dedicated: 2004 Location of Coordinates: In front of building Related Web address (if available): [Web Link] Type of place/structure you are waymarking: Building

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