Maypole Rises on Archer School Campus Once Again

The colorful is back up near Brentwood Village at The Archer School for Girls. It went up last weekend.

For more than three decades, a Maypole has appeared on what is now the historic campus in the Brentwood community Some local residents liken its overnight appearance to the seemingly miraculous emergence of the first crocus through the snows of distant memory, since the beribboned tradition takes many by surprise, year after year. The 2013 Maypole will be in place on the school lawn through the end of May.

The Maypole has been part of the spring landscape on this stretch of Sunset Boulevard, offsetting the iconic Spanish Colonial Revival main building, since 1981, when the original was erected by an anonymous benefactor in the dead of night to cheer elderly residents. At the time, the location was the Eastern Star Home, designed by William Mooser and Co. in 1931.

Since locating into the building in 1999, students at Archer herald each spring with a long-anticipated Maypole dance and celebration on the last day of school. The rising of the Maypole on this site is one of the longest-running traditions in the Brentwood community.

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