{"nrhp_refnum":"88002288","name":"Kensington High School for Girls","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"2075 E. Cumberland St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Philadelphia","county":"Philadelphia","state":"PA","lat":39.98466186100006,"lon":-75.12611199299994,"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-and-a-half-story red brick high school building on a raised basement at 21st and Winter Streets in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, designed for girls and built in 1916-1917 by the Philadelphia School District. The building is reinforced concrete clad in brick with limestone trim.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the school is the second neighborhood high school in Philadelphia designed and built specifically for girls, following William Penn High School for Girls. It reflects the School Board's policy of distinctive custom design for each high school and the continued existence of single-sex public education. It is regarded as significant for its place in the history of pedagogy and of school architecture in Philadelphia.","narrative":"Built in 1916-1917 by the School District of Philadelphia, this three-and-a-half-story building at 21st and Winter Streets is a red brick structure over reinforced concrete, with limestone sills, lintels and dripcourses. Its southern elevation has nine projecting and recessed bays, with entrances and stairwells in the second and eighth registers, and its auditorium occupies the projecting far-right bay. The interior originally held 42 classrooms, lecture, lunch and faculty rooms, a library, an auditorium, a gymnasium, and four domestic science rooms, arranged for the school's curriculum. Designed by H. deCourcy Richards Reilly in a Jacobethan manner, it was the second neighborhood high school in the city built specifically for girls, after William Penn High School for Girls of 1908-1909. The School District generally custom-designed its high schools, and this building is significant for its role in the history of education and school architecture in Philadelphia, and for its place in the persistence of single-sex public schooling.","period_of_significance":"1916-1917","architect_builder":"H. deCourcy Richards Reilly (architect)","architectural_style":"Jacobethan (Tudor Revival listed as style on form)","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Form rates condition as good to excellent; no current use is stated.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:38.036229-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/88002288.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/88002288/96085568af-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/88002288/96085568af-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Smallbones","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kensington_HS_Philly.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Smallbones</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kensington_HS_Philly.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71993789","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kensington_High_School_(Philadelphia)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6391451"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/philadelphia/kensington-high-school-for-girls-88002288/"}