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]
David Landreth School | |
 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 |
| 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 |
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]
References
edit- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
- ^ a b c "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.
- ^ a b 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.
- ^ "Queen Memorial Library".
External links
edit- Edmunds, Franklin Davenport (1917). The Public School Buildings of the City of Philadelphia from 1853 to 1867. Philadelphia: F.D. Edmunds. p. 106.