{"nrhp_refnum":"01000464","name":"Shelly, William, School and Annex","other_names":["Eberton School"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"201 N. Adams St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"West York Borough","county":"York County","state":"PA","lat":40.046341666000046,"lon":-76.76332668699996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2001-05-02","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Education","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A pair of brick school buildings, the smaller William Shelly Annex (c. 1897, enlarged c. 1898-1903) and the larger William Shelly School (1905-1908, rebuilt 1919 after fire), standing side by side at North Adams and Stanton Streets in West York Borough, York County, Pennsylvania.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the schools are locally significant examples of urban public education in York County in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and that together they show the change from a one-room school to a larger modern school. The Italian Renaissance style of the later building is cited as an architectural distinction. The schools were among the first built in what became West York Borough, a suburb developed in the late 1890s.","narrative":"Two brick school buildings stand side by side at North Adams and Stanton Streets in West York Borough, York County, Pennsylvania. The smaller Shelly Annex was begun around 1897 as a one-room schoolhouse and was enlarged twice between about 1898 and 1903 into a 2-1/2-story building. The larger William Shelly School was built in 1905 and completed in 1908 in the Italian Renaissance style, designed by local architect Charles Augustus Keyworth. A fire in June 1919 burned the school to a skeleton frame, and it was rebuilt that year. The schools were named for William H. Shelly, a former York superintendent of schools. They are regarded as examples of urban public education in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and they show the shift from a small rural-style school to a larger modern building. The schools were used for education until the late 1950s.","period_of_significance":"c. 1897-1950","architect_builder":"Charles Augustus Keyworth (architect)","architectural_style":"Italian Renaissance","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Closed as schools in the late 1950s; sold in 1960 and used for storage and office space until 1997; a rehabilitation project to convert them into apartments was under consideration.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:36.271014-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/01000464.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/01000464/d6b6f56da6-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/01000464/d6b6f56da6-1600.webp","licence":"CC0","author":"Smallbones","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:School_Adams_St_West_York_PA.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Smallbones</a>, <a href=\"http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/deed.en\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:School_Adams_St_West_York_PA.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71998704","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Shelly_School_and_Annex","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8018362"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/york-county/shelly-william-school-and-annex-01000464/"}