{"nrhp_refnum":"88002279","name":"Henry, Charles Wolcott, School","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"601--645 W. Carpenter Ln.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Philadelphia","county":"Philadelphia","state":"PA","lat":40.04592022200006,"lon":-75.19656313299998,"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 two-story red brick school with limestone trim at 601-645 West Carpenter Lane in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, built 1906-1908 for the School District of Philadelphia. Henry deCourcy Richards designed it, and Cramp & Company is named as builder.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the building is significant under Criterion C for architecture. It is described as Richards' first executed design and as surviving intact in its original form despite later additions. The original building is said to well represent the Georgian and Colonial Revival style typical of Richards' early work.","narrative":"Built between 1906 and 1908 on West Carpenter Lane in Philadelphia, this two-story red brick school with limestone trim was designed by Henry deCourcy Richards for the School District of Philadelphia. Its façade has a projecting central section with horizontal bands at the corners, keystone-centered lintels, stone sills and a stone dripcourse, and a stone beltcourse runs beneath a wood cornice. A slightly pitched hipped roof covers the building. The design is Richards' first executed work and is identical to the Thomas Buchanan Read School at 78th Street and Buist Avenue in Southwest Philadelphia. Construction was interrupted by a bombing in 1906, while the building was under construction. Two additions were erected to the west in 1949-1950 and 1968. The original structure is regarded as surviving intact, and it is considered a good representative of the Georgian and Colonial Revival buildings Richards produced early in his career. Its listing rests on its architectural design.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Henry deCourcy Richards (architect); Cramp & Company (builder)","architectural_style":"Colonial Revival","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Two additions were built to the west, in 1949-1950 and 1968, and the original building is described as surviving intact.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:38.087272-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/88002279.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/88002279/e7f228df4c-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/88002279/e7f228df4c-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Smallbones","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Henry_School_Philly.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Smallbones</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Henry_School_Philly.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/71993559","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_W._Henry_School","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5083675"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/philadelphia/henry-charles-wolcott-school-88002279/"}