32 Vallejo Apartments: 2257 Vallejo
The Vallejo apartments were purchased by the school in 1960 to house the Religious. After nuns no longer had to be cloistered, the Vallejo apartments were utilized as school administration offices (The Business Office and Human Resources currently reside in the Vallejo Apartments), while the remaining apartments are rented out to tenants.
33 Herbst House:
2201 Broadway
The school purchased Herbst House in 1985. The building is used primarily by Middle Form girls. San Francisco-based theater and auditorium architect G. Albert Lansburgh designed the house, which is why the foyer feels a lot like a theater lobby.
Herbst House was built around the same time as the Flood Mansion, 1914.
34 Herbert Center
The Herbert Center was built in 1993 and dedicated in 1994. It is named for the Herbert family. Funded through the school's second capital campaign, the sports complex gave the physical education classes and athletics teams a true home on Broadway. Prior to its opening, PE teachers had to be creative to get students moving; more than one PE class involved simply running up and down the hills in the neighborhood.
35 Siboni
Center
The Siboni Center for Arts & Sciences was completed in 2004 and named for the Siboni family. The building is located behind Grant House in a building that tiers down the hill to a corner of Buchanan and Vallejo Streets. Middle Form and high school students all take advantage of the studios, labs and music practice space cleverly designed down the hill.
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Bulletin | Winter 2013
| photo by heather cenzer |
Dramas and musicals — such as the 2012 production of Beauty & the Beast by a co-ed Middle Form ensemble — regularly sellout Syufy Theatre.
36 Syufy Theatre The Syufy Theatre was completed in 2004 and named for Marcia Syufy and her family. The 355seat auditorium inside the Siboni Center is constantly buzzing with drama productions, concerts, recitals, assemblies and presentations made all the more crowd-pleasing with top-notch lighting and sound. Read more about fine and performing arts on page 54.