{"nrhp_refnum":"88002298","name":"Marshall, John, School","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"1501--1527 Sellers St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Philadelphia","county":"Philadelphia","state":"PA","lat":40.01479055100003,"lon":-75.08726412599998,"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 basement at 1501-1527 Sellers Street in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, built in 1909-1910 for the School District of Philadelphia. A three-story matching addition was built in 1922.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the building is significant as an example of the varied architectural work of Henry deCourcy Richards, the district's principal designer during its 1905 centralized school construction program. It also illustrates the use of traditional American forms to assert a connection with an earlier past in the early twentieth century.","narrative":"Built in 1909-1910 on Sellers Street in Philadelphia, the John Marshall School is a three-story brick building on a raised basement, with stone trim and a central pediment. The school district began a major construction program in 1905 under Superintendent of Buildings Horace Cook, with Henry deCourcy Richards as principal designer. Richards designed many schools for the district, adopting a range of styles including Classical Revival, Georgian Revival and Jacobethan, and he favored American forms suited to an immigrant city. The Marshall School is a Colonial Revival example of this work and shows how traditional forms were used to evoke an earlier American past. A matching three-story addition was completed in 1922 from plans by Irwin T. Catharine. The building is listed as significant for its place in the history of education and school architecture in Philadelphia.","period_of_significance":"1909-1910","architect_builder":"Henry deCourcy Richards (architect); David Peoples (builder); Irwin T. Catharine (1922 addition plans)","architectural_style":"Colonial 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 17:11:37.198596-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/88002298.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/88002298/e53d919f33-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/88002298/e53d919f33-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Smallbones","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:JMarshall_School_Philly.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Smallbones</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:JMarshall_School_Philly.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71993563","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Marshall_School","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6246914"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/philadelphia/marshall-john-school-88002298/"}