{"nrhp_refnum":"86003272","name":"Drexel, Francis M., School","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"1800 S. Sixteenth St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Philadelphia","county":"Philadelphia","state":"PA","lat":39.92837966400003,"lon":-75.17258697499994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1986-12-04","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A school building in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, constructed in 1889-1879 as stated in the form (the form gives \"188979\", likely 1889 or 1879 with OCR error). It is one of the Drexel School models built across the city.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the school represents an important period in school design and embodies Victorian-era popular styling. It is regarded as a proto-typical Queen Anne-influenced design that uses the single-loaded corridor variation of the Sloan plan, and it is one of a few relatively intact examples of its model surviving.","narrative":"Built in the late 1880s in Philadelphia, the Drexel School was designed by Joseph Anshutz, who prepared many school plans for the city's School Board. Anshutz later served as the board's architect and supervisor of school buildings and designed some 75 schools, many repeating the same style and basic plan. The Drexel School uses brick corbelling, tall attenuated chimneys and molded brick belt courses in a Queen Anne-influenced design drawn from the work of Frank Furness. Each floor contains five classrooms, some divided by sliding partitions, and the building follows the single-loaded corridor variation of the Sloan plan with stairs at flanking ends. It is regarded as a proto-typical example of this design and is among the few relatively intact survivors of the Drexel School models built in the 1880s and 1890s, alongside the Key and Landreth Schools.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Joseph Anshutz (architect)","architectural_style":"Queen Anne-influenced, Furness-inspired High Style Victorian","criteria":[],"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 17:11:32.428374-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/86003272.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/86003272/e555944cd1-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/86003272/e555944cd1-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Smallbones","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Drexel_School_2.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Smallbones</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Drexel_School_2.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71993713","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_M._Drexel_School","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5481798"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/philadelphia/drexel-francis-m-school-86003272/"}