{"nrhp_refnum":"88002257","name":"Childs, George W., School","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"1501 S. 17th St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Philadelphia","county":"Philadelphia","state":"PA","lat":39.931442709000066,"lon":-75.17282874899996,"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 brick school building at 1501 S. 17th Street, at the corner of 17th and Dickinson Streets in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, built in 1893-1894 for the School District of Philadelphia.","why_significant":"The school is presented as a transitional design by architect Joseph W. Anschutz, moving from his earlier Queen Anne work toward Colonial Revival buildings. Its original formal exterior facades are said to have survived despite a large 1928 rear addition. It is listed under Architecture criterion C as part of the Philadelphia Public Schools multiple resource area.","narrative":"Built in 1893-1894 at the corner of 17th and Dickinson Streets in South Philadelphia, the Childs School is a three-story brick building with brownstone trim, a stone watertable, a central arched street-level entrance, a Palladian window in the gable, and a copper cornice. Architect Joseph W. Anschutz designed it with a block of fifteen classrooms, and he added six more in 1894. Its design marks a shift in his work from Queen Anne forms, seen in his earlier Landreth School, toward the Colonial Revival style of his later Sheridan School. A 1928 rear addition by Irwin T. Catharine, a nine-register yellow brick wing with limestone trim, raised the classroom count to 39 and departs from Anschutz's design. The original formal facades are still intact, and the building is significant for its architecture as part of the Philadelphia Public Schools group.","period_of_significance":"1893-1894","architect_builder":"Joseph W. Anschutz (architect); Johnson & Byrens (builder)","architectural_style":"Classical Revival","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Condition recorded as good and integrity as fair; the building is described as a school in use.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:36.793581-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/88002257.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/88002257/600b448341-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/88002257/600b448341-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Smallbones","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:George_Childs_School.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Smallbones</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:George_Childs_School.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71993523","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_W._Childs_School_(former_building)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5545564"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/philadelphia/childs-george-w-school-88002257/"}