{"nrhp_refnum":"88002245","name":"Belmont School","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"4030--4060 Brown St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Philadelphia","county":"Philadelphia","state":"PA","lat":39.96689037500005,"lon":-75.20453428499997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1988-11-18","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A three-story yellow brick school building with limestone trim at 4030-4060 Brown Street, at 21st and Winter Streets in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was built in 1927 as a school.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the building is significant for its place in the history of education and school architecture in Philadelphia. It is identical in plan and design to the Andrew Jackson, Eleanor Cope Emlen and Joseph Pennell schools, and the form states it has integrity equal to those buildings. The building is listed under Criterion C for architecture.","narrative":"Built in 1927 as a school at Brown and Winter Streets in Philadelphia, the Belmont School is a three-story building of yellow brick on a raised basement, with limestone trim around its openings. Its facade is organized into nine window registers, with a ground-floor entrance and a two-story stone bay in the center. Gothic detailing is applied to the stone surrounding the central opening. Architect Irwin T. Catharine designed the building in the Late Gothic Revival style. It is identical in plan and design to the Andrew Jackson, Eleanor Cope Emlen and Joseph Pennell schools, the first of which was already on the National Register at the time of this listing. A 1967 addition is attached to one rear corner, but it does not connect to the main building. The building is significant for its role in the history of education and school architecture in Philadelphia, and its integrity is rated as equal to the comparable schools.","period_of_significance":"1927","architect_builder":"Irwin T. Catharine (architect); Unknown (builder)","architectural_style":"Late Gothic Revival","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Condition recorded as good with very good integrity; the building is used 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 17:11:37.445217-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/88002245.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/88002245/64f5ce8403-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/88002245/64f5ce8403-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Smallbones","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Belmont_School_Philly_A.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Smallbones</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Belmont_School_Philly_A.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/71993631","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belmont_Charter_School","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4884418"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/philadelphia/belmont-school-88002245/"}