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Designed by Phoenix architects Royal W. Lescher and John R. Kibbey and completed in 1916, Florence High School was built in a neo-classical revival style with overtones of the Spanish revival style. The school board chose a one-story building because children had already walked or ridden horseback several miles. Its orientation helped keep rooms cool in summer and warm in winter, and the original doors and windows under the arches at the front and back of the auditorium opened to create a cross breeze that cooled the room. Students from Eloy, Picacho, Mammoth, Coolidge, and Red Rock attended school there. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
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Florence, Arizona · United States
