Rowland Hall-St. Mark's School
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| Type | Independent |
| Established | 1867 |
| Grades | PreK–12 |
| Mascot | Winged Lions |
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Rowland Hall-St. Mark's School
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| Location | 205 1st Ave., Salt Lake City, Utah |
| Coordinates | 40°46′17″N 111°52′55″W / 40.77139°N 111.88194°WCoordinates: 40°46′17″N 111°52′55″W / 40.77139°N 111.88194°W |
| Area | less than one acre |
| Built | 1870 |
| Architectural style | Colonial Revival, Italianate, Eclectic Georgian Revival, Other |
| NRHP Reference # | 79002504 |
| Added to NRHP | July 26, 1979 |
Rowland Hall–St. Mark's (RHSM) is a 2PreK through 12 independent college preparatory school Salt Lake City, Utah. Currently over 950 students attend Rowland Hall, which provides a challenging education for students with a focus on preparation for college and ethical behavior and service to others. The current headmaster is Alan Sparrow. This school has 100 teachers, with around 32 high school teachers. Founded in 1867, Rowland Hall is the oldest school in Utah.
RHSM traces its roots to St. Mark's School, which was founded in Salt Lake City by Episcopal Bishop Daniel Sylvester Tuttle in 1867. In support of newly established public schools in the Utah Territory, St. Mark's School was closed in the early 1890s. However its sister school, Rowland Hall, remained open.
RHSM has operated as a school continuously since Rowland Hall was founded by Bishop Tuttle in 1880 as a boarding school for girls from ranches in neighboring states; the school opened on the First Avenue campus in Salt Lake City. The historic building was originally a home built by George D. Watt in about 1862. Rowland Hall is the oldest school in continuous operation in Utah, predating the establishment of public schools in the Utah territory. During the Great Depression of the 1930s, when the Episcopal Diocese of Utah could no longer afford to support the school, graduates and parents assumed financial responsibility and reorganized Rowland Hall as an independent school.
In 1956, St. Mark's re-opened as an independent day school for boys in two historic houses and a so-called tin shed that were located next door to Rowland Hall, sharing the same city block. St. Mark's merged with Rowland Hall in 1964 to become Rowland Hall-St. Mark's, an independent coeducational school.
The Middle and Upper Schools moved to the Lincoln Street Campus in 1984. The Lower and Beginning Schools moved to the McCarthey Campus on Guardsman Way in 2002. The historic campus on First Avenue was sold to the Madeleine Choir School.
Rowland Hall's rigorous academic program has traditionally prepared its students for college. Universities and colleges attended by Rowland Hall graduates include Ivy League schools such as Harvard, Yale, and Princeton, and smaller private colleges across the U.S., including Pomona College, Lewis and Clark, Reed, Whitman, Williams, Amherst, Wesleyan and Westminster. Graduates also choose state universities, including the University of Utah. Award-winning teachers include Joel Long, who won the Mayor's Artist Award, and Mike Roberts who won a Hoey Award.
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