{"nrhp_refnum":"86000855","name":"Cameron, Simon, School","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"1839 Green St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Harrisburg","county":"Dauphin County","state":"PA","lat":40.275790475000065,"lon":-76.89453889399994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1986-04-24","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Education","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story, detached brick and frame elementary school in uptown Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, occupying an entire block bounded by Green, Muench, Susquehanna and Dauphin Streets. The front portion was erected in 1896 and the rear portion in 1900 to a matching design.","why_significant":"The building is cited as one of the city's best examples of Second Renaissance Revival styling and as the earliest Harrisburg school designed in its entirety by architect Charles Howard Lloyd. It is also presented as an elementary counterpart to the consolidated high school system and as the city's largest elementary school when built. Its exterior and much of its classroom interior are described as largely unaltered from 1896-1900.","narrative":"Built in 1896 and enlarged in 1900, the Cameron School is a two-story brick and frame elementary school on a full city block in uptown Harrisburg. Architects Foose and Lloyd designed it in the Second Renaissance Revival style, with tapestry brick walls, brownstone trim, segmented arched second-story windows, and a hipped slate roof with dormers. Its design favored natural light and ventilation, important concerns for schools of the period. The building was the city's largest elementary school when new, holding twenty classrooms and recording 690 pupils by 1922. It is regarded as the earliest Harrisburg school Lloyd designed in its entirety, a commission that launched his long specialization in school architecture. The school served grades one through six until 1972 and is considered an important example of early public school design in the city.","period_of_significance":"1896-1900","architect_builder":"Foose and Lloyd (Charles James Foose and Charles Howard Lloyd), architects; Josiah K. Ness (contractor)","architectural_style":"Second Renaissance Revival","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Currently occupied by an employment training center; proposed for conversion to luxury apartments.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:33.02014-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/86000855.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/86000855/9c170acb00-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/86000855/9c170acb00-1600.webp","licence":"CC0","author":"Smallbones","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cameron_School_Harrisburg_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:Cameron_School_Harrisburg_PA.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71995805","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Cameron_School","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7518407"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/dauphin-county/cameron-simon-school-86000855/"}