{"nrhp_refnum":"86003262","name":"Bache, Alexander Dallas, School","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"801 N. Twenty-second St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Philadelphia","county":"Philadelphia","state":"PA","lat":39.97000423900005,"lon":-75.17362852799994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1986-12-04","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Education","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A public school building in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, named for Alexander Dallas Bache. It was built around 1906 (the OCR reads the date as \"190.6706\").","why_significant":"The nomination argues the school is an unusual late example of the Romanesque Revival style, which was most often used for schools built from the late 1860s to the 1880s. It is described as an exceptionally intact example of high-quality turn-of-the-century school architecture in Philadelphia. Its L-shaped plan with a single loaded corridor and multi-purpose rooms is said to recall earlier school interiors.","narrative":"Built around 1906 as a public school in Philadelphia, the Bache School was designed by Lloyd Titus, the chief draftsman of the city's school system. Its Romanesque Revival design is unusual for its date, since that style was most often used for schools built from the late 1860s to the 1880s, and few schools from about 1900 follow it. The building has an L-shaped plan with a single loaded corridor and multi-purpose rooms, a layout that recalls earlier Philadelphia school interiors based on the Sloan plan. The school is contrasted with the Thomas A. Edison School, another Titus design, which had some of the first special-purpose rooms used in twentieth-century Philadelphia public schools. The nomination regards the Bache School as an exceptionally intact example of high-quality turn-of-the-century school architecture in the city, and as one of Titus's most significant works because of its late use of the Romanesque Revival style.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Lloyd Titus (Chief Draftsman, Philadelphia Board of Public Education)","architectural_style":"Romanesque Revival","criteria":["C"],"status_note":null,"vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:33.467551-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/86003262.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/86003262/d8b47f6f0c-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/86003262/d8b47f6f0c-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Smallbones","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bache_School_Philly.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Smallbones</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bache_School_Philly.JPG"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"83002279","name":"Spring Garden District (Boundary Increase)","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/pennsylvania/spring-garden-district-boundary-increase-83002279/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71993691","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bache-Martin_Elementary_School","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4718687"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/philadelphia/bache-alexander-dallas-school-86003262/"}