{"nrhp_refnum":"88002289","name":"Wilmot, David, School","other_names":["J.C. King Educational Building"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"1734 Meadow St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Phildelphia","county":"Philadelphia","state":"PA","lat":40.01371398100008,"lon":-75.08093522799999,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1988-11-18","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Education"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story stone school building at 1734 Meadow Street in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, built in 1874 as a public school and later known as the J.C. King Educational Building. A rear addition was erected in 1908.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the building is an excellent representation of the typical school building of the 1860s and 1870s, designed by Sidney and Esler, and that it survives in very good condition and integrity. It is one of only fourteen schools built before 1876 that remain standing in Philadelphia. The nomination lists it under Criterion A for education.","narrative":"A two-story stone schoolhouse at 1734 Meadow Street in Philadelphia was completed in 1874 and built by William Keas from plans by Lewis H. Esler, the School Board architect. Its design follows the type of two-classroom school promoted by James C. Sidney in 1866 and 1867, and Esler is said to have followed those plans closely. The building has four registers of stone walls, brownstone sills and arches over every opening, and a gable above the right-center opening. A rear addition from 1908, designed by H. deCourcy Richards and built by Lynch Brothers, continues the same wall surface. The building was originally the David Wilmot School and was first used as a private school. It is one of few surviving schools from the period before 1876, and the nomination treats it as a representative example of mid-nineteenth-century Philadelphia school design, recognised for its education history.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Lewis H. Esler (architect); William Keas (builder)","architectural_style":"Italianate","criteria":["A"],"status_note":"Document states the building has survived in very good condition and integrity.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:37.774498-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/88002289.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/88002289/55879b8ae1-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/88002289/55879b8ae1-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Smallbones","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wilmot_School_Philly.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Smallbones</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wilmot_School_Philly.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71993771","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Wilmot_School","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5241189"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/philadelphia/wilmot-david-school-88002289/"}