Redlands School (third location), Mesa County, Colorado 1911 Mesa Colorado 81507 United States The third Redlands School was a two-room frame building built at 2175 Broadway sometime in the 1910's or early 1920's. Redlands School District 40, which administered the school, had a basement hand dug for the building in 1926. First through eighth grades were taught at the school, and high school students went to Grand Junction High School. The school’s two rooms were heated by a stove. The rooms had sliding doors between them, and the plumbing was outside the building. Events, such as lectures sponsored by a men’s club, were held there. According to former student William Rump, children rode horses or walked to school. Willie Langford was apparently the first teacher at the school (she later became Willie McCann. Cora Bashor and Henry Clay Schneider were also teachers at the school. According to Rump, school children in the 1920's were involved in a tree-planting project. Many of the trees were still thriving in the 1980s. Each tree was named by the child who planted it. Rump named his tree Aristotle. According to the book In the Beginning... A History of the Districts and Schools that became Mesa County Valley School District 51 by Albert and Terry LaSalle (from which some other information for this article is also taken), a second building was built on the same site in 1941, with the latter building being fireproof and stucco. The Mesa County Assessor's office lists the year of the building's construction as 1911, making it possible that the building constructed in 1941 may have been a remodel of a previous building. According to Rump, the remodel in 1941 made it a more modern, four room building. It also included a kitchen, dining room, and recreation room. The school continued to house elementary students after the consolidation of the Redlands School District into District 51, and taught students that could not attend Broadway due to overcrowding in the 1960's. It also taught R-5 High School students from 1970-73, prior to the opening of the R-5 High School in the old Lowell School location at 7th and Grand Avenue. District 51 sold the building to the Episcopal Church of the Nativity in 1984, and the building continues to be used as a church. yes yes Episcopal Church of the Nativity