{"nrhp_refnum":"86003299","name":"Landreth, David, School","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"1201 S. Twenty-third St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Philadelphia","county":"Philadelphia","state":"PA","lat":39.937556595000046,"lon":-75.18127156499997,"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 former public school building on a site in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in use as the David Landreth School, with a construction date of 1889 designed by architect Joseph Anshutz. It occupies the site of a school tradition begun in 1845 on the former home of David Landreth.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the school represents an important period in school design, embodying Victorian-era flamboyance and eccentricity in public school architecture. It is presented as a prototypical Queen Anne influenced design by Anshutz that represents the single loaded corridor variation of the Sloan Plan, with few relatively intact examples of its model surviving. Its brickwork and chimneys are cited as Furness-influenced Queen Anne features.","narrative":"Built in 1889 to a design by architect Joseph Anshutz, the Landreth School occupies a Philadelphia site where public education has been provided since 1845, when David Landreth, founder of the city's prominent nursery and seed business, sold his private home at 23rd and Federal Streets to the Public School Board. An earlier Landreth School stood on the site from 1865 until 1889, when it was moved to the rear of the property, and its 1865 wing was demolished in 1923 when two large wings were added to the 1889 building. Anshutz designed some 75 Philadelphia school buildings, many closely similar to this one, reflecting the School Board's practice of selecting a limited number of plans and repeating them across the city. The building is distinguished by brick corbelling, tall attenuated chimneys and molded brick belt courses. Its original section has a single-loaded corridor with flanking stairs and five classrooms on each floor, a variation of the Sloan Plan popular in Philadelphia for about fifty years. It is regarded as one of the few relatively intact examples of its model.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Joseph Anshutz (architect)","architectural_style":"Furness-inspired High Style Victorian Gothic; Queen Anne influenced","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 17:11:32.175258-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/86003299.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/86003299/afd7cf1735-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/86003299/afd7cf1735-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Smallbones","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Landreth_School_Philly.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Smallbones</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Landreth_School_Philly.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71993709","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Landreth_School","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5236321"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/philadelphia/landreth-david-school-86003299/"}