{"nrhp_refnum":"86003295","name":"Fayette School","other_names":["Jacobs,William C.,School"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Old Bustleton and Welsh Rds.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Philadelphia","county":"Philadelphia","state":"PA","lat":40.082209843000044,"lon":-75.03855548199994,"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 at 21st Street and the Parkway in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, made up of an original 1854-1855 Samuel Sloan wing joined to a Colonial Revival addition of 1915. The building was known as Fayette School before its 1915 renaming to Jacobs School.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the building is the only surviving school in Philadelphia designed by Samuel Sloan, and that it preserves the multi-purpose interior plan Sloan developed, with partitioned rooms flanked by stairways. That plan is described as forming the basis for school interiors in the second half of the nineteenth century. The nomination also links the property to the Philadelphia Public Schools Thematic Resources group.","narrative":"A two-part school building at 21st Street and the Parkway in Philadelphia, consisting of a two-story stone wing with stucco finish and a later brick main block. The original wing was built in 1854-1855 to a design by Samuel Sloan, and its large elongated windows reflect his concern for daylight in classrooms. The original floor plan placed three interconnected classrooms between flanking stairways, following the multi-purpose layout that Sloan promoted for school interiors. In 1915 the school was enlarged with a hip-roofed, two-and-a-half-story brick Colonial Revival building with a decorated cornice and gabled dormers, and the name was changed from Fayette School to Jacobs School. The building is regarded as the only surviving Philadelphia public school by Sloan, which gives it value for the history of school architecture in the city. A modern one-story addition stands at the north end. The school was listed as part of a thematic group of Philadelphia public schools.","period_of_significance":"1854-1915","architect_builder":"Samuel Sloan","architectural_style":null,"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 17:11:34.267201-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/86003295.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/86003295/a8d74f7160-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/86003295/a8d74f7160-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Smallbones","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jacobs_School_Philly.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Smallbones</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jacobs_School_Philly.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71993697","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politz_Hebrew_Academy","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5439025"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/philadelphia/fayette-school-86003295/"}