{"nrhp_refnum":"86003339","name":"Vare, Abigail, School","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Morris St. and Moyamensing Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Philadelphia","county":"Philadelphia","state":"PA","lat":39.92696886400006,"lon":-75.15053503999997,"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 three-story stone school building on Morris Street at Moyamensing Avenue in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, designed in the Colonial Revival style. It was built in 1903-1904 for the Philadelphia public school system.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the school displays the stylistic transition in school design at the turn of the century and is a prototypical example of the growing influence of the Colonial Revival on Philadelphia public schools. Its floor plan is said to show the lingering influence of the Sloan plan, making it one of the last schools with a plan of that type.","narrative":"Built in 1903-1904 on Morris Street at Moyamensing Avenue in Philadelphia, the three-story stone school was designed by James Gaw, one of Supervisor Cook's assistants in the city school system. Its square plan is organized around a single loaded corridor with six classrooms on each level, with stairs centered at the front and paired at the rear. The front elevation has a projecting pedimented frontispiece, an arched main entrance with a band course bearing the building's name, and four smooth dressed Ionic columns supporting the entablature. A balustraded balcony sits above the sign band, and a Palladian-style window fills the front gable. Straight limestone lintels and sills frame the regular double-hung sash windows, and an oversized molded cornice with decorative brackets sits beneath the hipped roof. The building is regarded as a prototypical Colonial Revival public school and as one of the last schools whose floor plan followed the Sloan plan at the turn of the century.","period_of_significance":"1903-1904","architect_builder":"James Gaw (architect); Samuel Garley Jr. (builder)","architectural_style":"Colonial Revival","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"In use as a school","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:33.994515-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/86003339.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/86003339/887286c209-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/86003339/887286c209-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Smallbones","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Abigail_Vare_School_Philly.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Smallbones</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Abigail_Vare_School_Philly.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71993717","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abigail_Vare_School","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4667721"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/philadelphia/vare-abigail-school-86003339/"}