This undated photo shows students of the Scottsdale Grammar School sometime shortly after completion of construction in 1928. To accommodate growth in student population, the Scottsdale School District opened the Scottsdale Grammar School in September 1928 on the southwest corner of Second Street and Marshall Way. Local architectural firm Lescher and Mahoney designed the one-story stucco building in the Spanish Colonial Revival style. Mr. Garland White was the school's first principal. During its first year, 594 students attended grades one through eight. During the early 1950s, when the Scottsdale School District was growing by leaps and bounds and the school had been renamed the Scottsdale Elementary School, the School District decided to give its schools Native American names. The Scottsdale Elementary School thus became the Loloma Elementary School. It closed as a school at the end of the 1980-81 school year, then housed various commercial entities, including Scottsdale's first cable television provider. In 1993 the Scottsdale Artists School moved into the building. The former school is listed on Scottsdale's Historic Register. This undated photo shows the Scottsdale Grammar School shortly after completion of construction in 1928.
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