David Landreth School
David Landreth School | |
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| Location | 1201 S. Twenty-third St., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
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| Area | 1 acre (0.40 ha) |
| Built | 1889 |
| Built by | Charles McCaul |
| Architect | Joseph W. Anshutz |
| Architectural style | Gothic |
| MPS | Philadelphia Public Schools TR |
| NRHP reference No. | 86003299[1] |
| Added to NRHP | December 4, 1986 |
David Landreth School is a historic school building located in the Point Breeze neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.[2] It was built in 1889 after the original school caught fire (it had been on the nursery grounds of the D. Landreth Seed Company).[2][3]
It is a two-story, three-bay, brick building with a stone foundation in the Gothic Revival style. A three-story, nine-bay, yellow brick addition was built in 1928. It features a large corbelled brick cornice, sandstone sills and lintels, and three large brick chimneys with corbelled caps.[2] The school was named after the founder of the D. Landreth Seed Company.[3]
The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.[1]
The Queen Memorial Branch of the Philadelphia Public Library opened in its current location within the Landreth School building on Tuesday, January 17, 1995 in the Landreth Apartments, a residence for seniors that occupies the former school. Mamie Nichols, then Executive Director of the Point Breeze Federation, was a prime leader behind the renovation of the school into a "multi-purpose achievement center."[4]
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