Mastery Charter School Shoemaker Campus
William Shoemaker Junior High School | |
| File:Shoemaker Jr HS Philly.JPG William Shoemaker Junior High School, June 2010 | |
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| Location | 5301 Media St., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
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| Area | 3 acres (1.2 ha) |
| Built | 1925 |
| Architect | Irwin T. Catharine |
| Architectural style | Late Gothic Revival, Academic Gothic |
| MPS | Philadelphia Public Schools TR |
| NRHP reference No. | 86003328[1] |
| Added to NRHP | December 4, 1986 |
The Mastery Charter School Shoemaker Campus, formerly the William Shoemaker Junior High School, is a historic, American high school/middle school that is located in the Carroll Park neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It is currently a charter school run by Mastery Charter Schools.
NBA center Wilt Chamberlain attended the school.
History and architectural features
[edit | edit source]The building was designed by Irwin T. Catharine and built in 1925. It is a four-story, fourteen-bay, reinforced concrete, yellow brick-faced building. Designed in the Late Gothic Revival style, it features a central projecting entrance bay with Gothic arched door, thin brick piers with decorative caps, and brick panels in a herringbone pattern.[2]
The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.[1]
References
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External links
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- School buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Philadelphia
- Gothic Revival architecture in Pennsylvania
- School buildings completed in 1925
- Charter schools in Pennsylvania
- West Philadelphia
- Public middle schools in Pennsylvania
- Public elementary schools in Pennsylvania
- 1925 establishments in Pennsylvania