David Landreth School
United States historic place
David Landreth School
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David Landreth School, May 2010
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Location | 1201 S. Twenty-third St., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
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Coordinates | 39°56′16″N 75°10′54″W / 39.9377°N 75.1817°W / 39.9377; -75.1817 |
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]
References
- 1 2 "National Register Information System" . National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service . July 9, 2010.
- 1 2 3 "National Historic Landmarks & National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania" . CRGIS: Cultural Resources Geographic Information System. Archived from the original (Searchable database) on 2007-07-21 . Retrieved 2012-07-07 . Note: This includes B. Mintz (July 1986). "Pennsylvania Historic Resource Survey Form: David Landreth School" (PDF) . Retrieved 2012-07-03 .
- 1 2 Landreth, D. Seed Company (1920). D. Landreth Seed Company : [ catalog ] . LuEsther T. Mertz Library New York Botanical Garden. Bristol, PA Bloomsdale, PA Baltimore, MD New Freedom, PA : D. Landreth Seed Company.
External links
- Edmunds, Franklin Davenport (1917). The Public School Buildings of the City of Philadelphia from 1853 to 1867 . Philadelphia: F.D. Edmunds . p. 106 .
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