{"nrhp_refnum":"02000067","name":"Troy Public High School","other_names":["Troy Area Senior High School","Troy High School"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"250 High St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Troy","county":"Bradford County","state":"PA","lat":41.78906565600005,"lon":-76.78524242399999,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2002-02-20","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Education","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A large two-and-a-half-story Colonial Revival public high school in Troy Borough, Bradford County, Pennsylvania, on high ground north of US Route 6 (Elmira Street). It was built in 1923-24 and enlarged in 1936, 1939 and 1954.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the school is locally significant for education, as the only public high school serving western Bradford County in its early years, and as a product of an innovative bond-financing arrangement called the Troy Plan. The 1936 and 1939 additions reflect New Deal federal funding. The building is also argued to be a substantially original and rare large-scale example of Colonial Revival school architecture designed by Lawrie and Green.","narrative":"Built in 1923-24 on high ground in Troy Borough, the Troy Public High School is a large brick Colonial Revival building measuring about 435 by 165 feet, with a central nine-bay block of white-painted Doric pilasters, a copper modillioned cornice, and an octagonal cupola. Lawrie and Lappley of Harrisburg were first engaged as architects, and C.M. Thompson of Towanda was the original general contractor. The school was financed through the Troy School Association, which sold bonds after a fire destroyed the earlier high school in January 1922 and rented the new building to the district. Its 1936 and 1939 wings were funded partly by the Works Progress Administration, and Lawrie and Green designed them. The school is regarded as the principal surviving example of early twentieth-century public high school education in the area, drawing students from several townships and boroughs in western Bradford County.","period_of_significance":"1923-1951","architect_builder":"Lawrie and Green, Lawrie and Lappley (architects); Thompson, C.M. (1923-24), Case, F.P. & Sons (1936 & 39), Hedeen, Raymond (1954) (builders)","architectural_style":"Colonial Revival","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"The document states the school retains its integrity and was still in use as a school building, with the gymnasium converted to a library in 1974.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:37.416417-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/02000067.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/02000067/22a061907d-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/02000067/22a061907d-1600.webp","licence":"CC0","author":"Smallbones","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Troy_PA_High_School_middle_section.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:Troy_PA_High_School_middle_section.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71998384","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troy_Public_High_School","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7846928"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/bradford-county/troy-public-high-school-02000067/"}