{"nrhp_refnum":"86002662","name":"Conroy Junior High School","other_names":["Conroy Education Center"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Page and Fulton Sts.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Pittsburgh","county":"Allegheny County","state":"PA","lat":40.46078184400005,"lon":-80.02414542999998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1986-09-30","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Education","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A three-part school complex occupying half a city block in Pittsburgh's Manchester neighborhood, bounded by Page, Fulton and Manhattan Streets, comprising the 1908 Conroy School, an 1895 former Fifth Ward Industrial School building, and a 1936 wing with a 1975 infill addition. The 1908 building served as a junior high school.","why_significant":"The complex is described as a visually exciting architectural document displaying the school design of successive generations. The 1936 auditorium is presented as one of Marion M. Steen's more intact and significant interiors, a classic Art Deco space. The 1908 building's rusticated brickwork and tower are also highlighted.","narrative":"Occupying half a block in Pittsburgh's Manchester neighborhood, the Conroy complex combines three school buildings built across roughly seven decades. The anchor is the 1908 building, three stories over a raised basement, with a four-story hipped-roof tower at the center of its facade and brickwork laid to resemble heavily rusticated stone. It replaced an earlier structure lost to fire and served as a junior high school. At the west end stands an 1895 building originally erected as the Fifth Ward Industrial School, with a Page Street entrance surrounded by pilasters and a rounded arch. A 1936 wing added to the east carries Art Deco wave and zig-zag motifs on its stone entry surrounds. Its auditorium, with terra cotta wall tiles, metalwork grilles and decorative friezes, is regarded as one of Marion M. Steen's most intact interiors. The 1908 building retains its upper-level gymnasium and metal staircases. Together the buildings show how school design changed across successive generations.","period_of_significance":"1901-1920","architect_builder":"Marion M. Steen (architect, 1936 wing); architects of the oldest extant sections unknown","architectural_style":"Renaissance Revival; Art Deco interior","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Good condition, fair integrity per survey form; the 1908 windows are replacements and the 1975 addition replaced an earlier building","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:33.071585-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/86002662.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/86002662/8ba1aeb4d2-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/86002662/8ba1aeb4d2-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Nyttend","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Conroy_Junior_High_School.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Nyttend</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Conroy_Junior_High_School.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71992138","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conroy_Education_Center","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5162694"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/allegheny-county/conroy-junior-high-school-86002662/"}