{"nrhp_refnum":"88002302","name":"Morrison, Andrew J., School","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"300 Duncannon St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Philadelphia","county":"Philadelphia","state":"PA","lat":40.029526727000075,"lon":-75.12971041999998,"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 red brick school building with stone trimmings at 300 Duncannon Street in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, built 1922-1924. It was designed by Irwin T. Catharine and is one of the Philadelphia Public Schools thematic group.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the building marks a major shift in Philadelphia school design, using a new School Board type that dropped many Colonial Revival and industrial features. Its Gothic and Jacobethan details are presented as evidence that Catharine aimed to make school buildings more architecturally ornate. It is listed under Criterion C for architecture.","narrative":"Red brick school building of three stories on a raised brick basement at Duncannon Street and Winter Street in Philadelphia, completed in 1924 from designs by Irwin T. Catharine. Its end sections project with stone surrounds and carved panels beneath each opening, and the central entrance bay carries an arched door and a two-story stone bay with the school's name carved above. A crenellated parapet and a Flemish gable mark the roofline. The building was contracted on the same day as the John Story Jenks School and used a new School Board plan, Type Number 139, which removed many Colonial Revival and industrial features of earlier Philadelphia school designs. Its Gothic and Jacobethan ornament shows Catharine's intent to make school architecture more ornate. The building is significant as an example of this change in the city's school design during the 1920s, and it is one of the contributing properties in the Philadelphia Public Schools thematic group.","period_of_significance":"1922-1924","architect_builder":"Irwin T. Catharine (architect)","architectural_style":"Late Gothic Revival/Tudor Revival","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Condition recorded as good and integrity as excellent on the 1987 survey; used as a school.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:36.91732-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/88002302.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/88002302/b94c72f1a1-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/88002302/b94c72f1a1-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Smallbones","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Morrison_School_Philly.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Smallbones</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Morrison_School_Philly.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71993667","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_J._Morrison_School","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4757421"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/philadelphia/morrison-andrew-j-school-88002302/"}