San Jose High School opened in 1863 in a room above Orbon 's flour store at 210 South 1st Street . On January 1 , 1868 , it moved to a purpose-built $ 20,000 building at Santa Clara and 7th Streets that also housed Horace Mann Elementary . In 1898 San Jose High School was relocated to One Washington Square , on San Fernando Street between 6th and 7th Streets , where it remained until 1952 . This location was on the San Jose State College campus . The 1898 building was three stories , of brick and stone , and cost $ 75,000 ; it was destroyed in the 1906 earthquake and after the school shared facilities for two years with Lincoln High School , it moved back to a replacement building on the same site , which was used from 1908 to 1951 . This high school campus was designed by Pasadena architect F. S. Allen in Mission Revival style and cost $ 175,000 ; it housed different subjects in separate buildings connected by arcades forming courtyards
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