{"nrhp_refnum":"88002284","name":"Howe, Julia Ward, School","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"1301--1331 Grange St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Philadelphia","county":"Philadelphia","state":"PA","lat":40.04122430100006,"lon":-75.14250977499995,"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-faced reinforced concrete school with terra cotta trim at 1301-1331 Grange Street, at 21st and Winter Streets in Philadelphia, built 1913-1914 by the School District of Philadelphia. The building is named the Julia Ward Howe School and is in the Tudor Revival style as stated on the form.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the school represents the building program the School Board carried out after its 1905 reorganization through World War I, when the city's population growth led to about 70 new schools. It is significant for its design by Henry deCourcy Richards, who gave variety to a single expandable school plan, and for its place in the history of education and school architecture in Philadelphia.","narrative":"Built in 1913-1914 by the School District of Philadelphia, this three-story school at 1301-1331 Grange Street is faced in brick with reinforced concrete framing and terra cotta trim. Henry deCourcy Richards, who worked for the district from 1906 to 1918 and designed forty-nine public school buildings, prepared its design. The school belongs to a group of eight schools built from 1912 to 1914 on the same reinforced concrete plan, type 128, which Richards varied through ornament. Its decoration includes a limestone entrance surround, decorative panels between the floors, and a stone beltcourse between the second and third floors. The building is regarded as retaining integrity equal to the Edgar Allen Poe School in the same group. It is listed for its architecture and for what it shows of Philadelphia's school building program, which was driven by a population that grew from 1.3 million in 1900 to over 1.8 million in 1920.","period_of_significance":"1913-1914","architect_builder":"Henry deCourcy Richards (architect); Thomas Reilly (builder)","architectural_style":"Tudor Revival","criteria":["C"],"status_note":null,"vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:36.9238-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/88002284.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/88002284/9b62839610-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/88002284/9b62839610-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Smallbones","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Howe_School_Philly_A.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Smallbones</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Howe_School_Philly_A.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71993701","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julia_Ward_Howe_School","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6306831"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/philadelphia/howe-julia-ward-school-88002284/"}