{"nrhp_refnum":"88002294","name":"Longfellow, Henry, School","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"5004--5098 Tacony St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Philadelphia","county":"Philadelphia","state":"PA","lat":40.00849478400005,"lon":-75.07108702199997,"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 school building on a raised brick basement at 5004-5098 Tacony Street in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, built in 1915 for the School District of Philadelphia. It is identified as the Henry Longfellow School and is classed as a building.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the school is significant for its place in the history of public school architecture in Philadelphia, as one of the later designs by Henry deCourcy Richards during his work for the School District after its 1905 reorganization. It is described as one of the simplest and least costly of Richards' buildings, showing the range of his styles and his versatility. It is nominated under Criterion C for architecture.","narrative":"Built in 1915 in Philadelphia's Frankford section, the Henry Longfellow School is a three-story brick building set on a raised basement, at Tacony Street near Winter Street. It was designed by Henry deCourcy Richards, who served as principal designer for the School District of Philadelphia after its reorganization and centralization in 1905. Under his direction and that of J. Horace Cook, the district erected dozens of elementary schools and several high schools in the years up to World War I. The building has a stone frontispiece at the entrance, a stone beltcourse beneath a brick parapet, and window bands across its central bays. Its Classical features are restrained, and the school is considered one of Richards' simplest and least costly designs. It is significant as a representative example of his later work and of the range of styles he used for Philadelphia's public schools.","period_of_significance":"1915","architect_builder":"Henry deCourcy Richards (architect); Thomas Reilly (builder)","architectural_style":"Classical Revival","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Vacant","vacant_flag":true,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:36.926552-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/88002294.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/88002294/230b6186bd-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/88002294/230b6186bd-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Smallbones","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Longfellow_School_Philly.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Smallbones</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Longfellow_School_Philly.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71993529","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Longfellow_School","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5725048"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/philadelphia/longfellow-henry-school-88002294/"}