Phoenix Indian School, Memorial Hall, Northeast Corner of Central Avenue & Indian School Road, Phoenix, Maricopa County, AZ

Significance: Memorial Hall was the second major building on the site to employ Mission Revival style, and like the first example, the Dining Hall, it was carried out in red brick. It was also sited, parallel and to the east of the Dining Hall, to face south on the axis of a main entrance to the site (Rhoads Circle), as the Dining Hall faced south down Scattergood, the two buildings forming a matching pair at the center of the site. In fact, together with the War Memorial in front of it, Memorial Hall became in 1922 the new centerpiece of the School. An additional and quite unusual feature of the Memorial Hall was the large number literally, thousands of names and dates carved or scratched into the bricks of the exterior walls, recording the presence at the School of generations of students. Although most of the inscriptions (graffiti) were typically abbreviated, enough information could probably be gleaned to form an impression in miniature of the social history of the School over seven decades.
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N268
Survey number: HABS AZ-145-C
Building/structure dates: 1922 Initial Construction