{"nrhp_refnum":"88002277","name":"Harding, Warren G., Junior High School","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"2000 Wakeling St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Philadelphia","county":"Philadelphia","state":"PA","lat":40.01263729200008,"lon":-75.07425500399995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1988-11-18","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Education","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A three-story brick junior high school with a raised stone basement at 2000 Wakeling Street, at 21st and Winter Streets in Philadelphia, built in 1923-1924 to a design by Irwin T. Catharine for the School District of Philadelphia.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the school represents the School District's early 1920s program of building junior high schools in response to changing educational theory. It is one of eight identical buildings erected from Catharine's JHS-4 model between 1922 and 1924, and it is regarded as an architectural response to that new need. It is considered significant for its place in the history of education and school architecture in Philadelphia.","narrative":"Built in 1923-1924 at 2000 Wakeling Street in Philadelphia, this three-story brick junior high school rests on a raised stone basement. Its front is shaped as a shallow W, with a projecting central pavilion of stone that carries the school's name above the third floor. The building was designed by Irwin T. Catharine as one of eight identical schools built by the School District of Philadelphia from a single model between 1922 and 1924. The design was devised for the district's new junior high schools, which followed changing ideas about education in the years after World War I. The school was large for its era, exceeded in size only by the city's senior high schools. Its windows were replaced in 1985-1986, but the nomination judges that the building retains very good integrity. It is listed for its importance to education and school architecture in Philadelphia.","period_of_significance":"1923-1924","architect_builder":"Irwin T. Catharine (architect)","architectural_style":"Colonial Revival","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Windows replaced in 1985-1986; 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 17:11:37.862813-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/88002277.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/88002277/bb2e25c532-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/88002277/bb2e25c532-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Smallbones","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Harding_Jr_HS_Philly.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Smallbones</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Harding_Jr_HS_Philly.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71993729","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren_G._Harding_Middle_School","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7970212"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/philadelphia/harding-warren-g-junior-high-school-88002277/"}