{"nrhp_refnum":"86003324","name":"Institute for Colored Youth","other_names":["Randall,Samuel J.,School"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Tenth and Bainbridge Sts.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Philadelphia","county":"Philadelphia","state":"PA","lat":39.94209364200003,"lon":-75.15951127299996,"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 school building on Bainbridge Street in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, used by the Institute for Colored Youth from 1866 and later known as the Samuel J. Randall School after its 1903 purchase by the Philadelphia School Board.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the building is significant as part of the facilities of one of the oldest schools in the country devoted to educating Black youth. It also notes that when the school board bought it, the building still showed an earlier school design, including Italianate styling and a double-loaded corridor plan based on the Sloan Plan.","narrative":"Located on Bainbridge Street in Philadelphia, this school building was used by the Institute for Colored Youth from 1866, after the institute moved from its original site on Lombard Street. The Institute had been chartered by the State of Pennsylvania in 1842 to educate Black boys and girls, and it was one of the first schools in the nation devoted solely to educating Black youth. It remained in this school and nearby buildings until 1903, when it relocated to Cheney, Delaware County. The Philadelphia School Board bought the building that year and hired Edward Fay to renovate it for public school use. Much of its earlier appearance was kept, so the building was an example of an older school design when it was acquired. It retained Italianate styling, popular in the 1860s and 1870s, and a double-loaded corridor plan based on the earlier Sloan Plan. Its significance rests on its link to the Institute and on this surviving earlier school design.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Italianate","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 17:11:34.479578-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/86003324.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/86003324/beb719e6ae-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/86003324/beb719e6ae-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Smallbones","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Institute_for_Colored_Youth.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Smallbones</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Institute_for_Colored_Youth.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71993783","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institute_for_Colored_Youth","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6039223"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/philadelphia/institute-for-colored-youth-86003324/"}