{"nrhp_refnum":"86003277","name":"Dunlap, Thomas, School","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"5031 Race St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Philadelphia","county":"Philadelphia","state":"PA","lat":39.962894550000044,"lon":-75.22161757299995,"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":"The Thomas L. Dunlap School is a school building in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The document does not state its construction date or describe its physical appearance in detail.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the school is an intact and distinctive example of the Colonial Revival design of Lloyd Titus, who served as Chief Draftsman for the Philadelphia School Board's Department of Building from 1901 to 1905. It notes that Titus was the last non-architect to hold the position, and that his simple, skillfully handled school designs illustrate the non-architect's approach compared with the more sophisticated work of architect Henry deCoursey Richards, his successor. The area of significance is architecture.","narrative":"Philadelphia's Thomas L. Dunlap School is a school building designed in the Colonial Revival mode by Lloyd Titus, who worked as Chief Draftsman for the Philadelphia School Board's Department of Building from 1901 to 1905. Titus was the last non-architect to hold that post, serving under the department's supervisor, a licensed architect. His successor, the architect Henry deCoursey Richards, produced Colonial Revival schools of greater refinement in their detailing and innovation. The Dunlap School is regarded as an intact and distinctive example of Titus's work. His designs were simple, with minimal detailing and ornamentation, yet showed a practical skill with materials suited to early twentieth-century school design. The building is significant in the history of Philadelphia school architecture as a representative product of a designer who shaped the city's public school buildings in the early 1900s without holding an architect's license.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Lloyd Titus (designer, non-architect Chief Draftsman, Philadelphia School Board Department of Building)","architectural_style":"Colonial Revival","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 17:11:34.271871-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/86003277.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/86003277/5d19df5562-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/86003277/5d19df5562-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Smallbones","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dunlap_School_Philly.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Smallbones</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dunlap_School_Philly.JPG"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"72001151","name":"Fairmount Park","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/pennsylvania/fairmount-park-72001151/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71993531","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Dunlap_School","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7789109"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/philadelphia/dunlap-thomas-school-86003277/"}