{"nrhp_refnum":"86002663","name":"Dilworth Elementary School","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Saint Marie and Collins Sts.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Pittsburgh","county":"Allegheny County","state":"PA","lat":40.46910929200004,"lon":-79.91727168799997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1986-09-30","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Dilworth Elementary School is a two-and-one-half-story H-shaped brick school building on St. Marie and Collins Streets in the Pittsburgh area of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, built in 1914-1915 under the Pittsburgh Board of Public Education, with an auditorium added in 1927.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the school is significant in architecture as a consciously elegant design, stylistically unique in the city and echoing European school designs of the 1910s. It also cites progressive educational features such as a well-lit kindergarten and basement play spaces, which it describes as transitional in their limited functionality.","narrative":"Built in 1914-1915 on St. Marie and Collins Streets, Dilworth Elementary School is an H-shaped brick building of two and a half stories with a tile gabled roof, a tall central chimney, and terra cotta and ornamental brickwork in the cross-gabled end bays. Its central entrance projects between buttress-like piers beneath a stepped parapet, and the wall surface is Flemish bond brick with eight-over-eight sash windows. The architects, Martin U. Vrydaugh and Thomas B. Wolfe, worked in a Jacobean Revival manner that the property's description calls stylistically unique in Pittsburgh. The interior has a broad center hall, exposed brick window surrounds, and a kindergarten with a fireplace. An auditorium added at the rear in 1927 has its own outside access for community use. The school is named for the Dilworth family, whose land was transferred to the School Board. It is significant for its architecture and for its early elegant design.","period_of_significance":"1901-1920","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Jacobean Revival","criteria":[],"status_note":"Condition recorded as good on the survey form; in use as a school.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:33.66894-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/86002663.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/86002663/b63c1d8d5f-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/86002663/b63c1d8d5f-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Lee Paxton","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:DilworthElementarySchoolFront.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Lee Paxton</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:DilworthElementarySchoolFront.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71992128","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dilworth_Elementary_School_(Pittsburgh,_Pennsylvania)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5277099"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/allegheny-county/dilworth-elementary-school-86002663/"}