South Park Blocks location (now known as Lincoln Hall) when construction was completed in 1912. The building occupies the block bounded by Market & Mill Streets and Park & Broadway. (After the 1912 move, the old building of 1885 was used by the Girls' Polytechnic School. In fall 1928, that school moved to a new building on the east side, leaving the 1885 building vacant, and it was demolished by 1930.) In 1937, the school had grown to 1,580 students and 53 teachers. In 1972, it had 1,253 students, 7% of whom were black (a contemporary report noted they were mostly "voluntary transfers"); 4.3% of the students were on welfare. Also in 1937, the Portland Police Bureau's anti-leftist "Red Squad" interrogated a student union leader. This rapidly led to the disbanding of the Silver Shirts-affiliated Red Squad. Due to the baby boom and passing of a $25 million building levy by the school district in 1947, a new high school was slated. The existing building was sold to the Vanport Extension Center (now Portland State University) in April 1949 for $875,000, with the intention that the high school would not leave for "at least two years." Land was cleared for the school by June 1950 on the former Jacob Kamm House property. 21st century Lincoln is slated to be completely rebuilt as part of a $790 million bond measure passed in 2017. Construction is set to begin in the summer of 2020, with students returning at the beginning of the 2023 school year. The new building is being built where the field used to sit, leaving the old building available to attend in the interim years. Notable alumni Sports Peter Baum, 2012 Tewaaraton Trophy winner and first overall pick of the 2012 Major League Lacrosse draft Ron East, professional football player Harry Glickman, sports promoter, "father of professional sports" in Oregon Jim Grelle, runner Swede Halbrook, former professional basketball player Peter Jacobsen, professional golfer Elmer Kolberg, professional football player Mickey Lolich, professional baseball player, 1968 World Series MVP Award winner Johnny Pesky, professional baseball player Richard Sanders, world champion and two-time Olympic silver medal-winning wrestler Matthew Sheldon, professional soccer player Music Marion Bauer, composer, educator, and critic Kathleen Hanna, composer, writer, activist and member of Bikini Kill Robert Mann, violinist and founding member of Juilliard String Quartet Tye North, musician and former member of Leftover Salmon Elliott Smith, singer-songwriter Nate