{"nrhp_refnum":"88002303","name":"Nebinger, George W., School","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"601--627 Carpenter St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Philadelphia","county":"Philadelphia","state":"PA","lat":39.936695271000076,"lon":-75.15388050599995,"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 four-story brick school building at 601-627 Carpenter Street in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, built in 1924-1925 and designed by architect Irwin T. Catharine.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the school is significant for its architecture as part of the Philadelphia Public Schools Thematic Resource. It reflects the intermediate styles Catharine developed while moving away from the Colonial Revival and Utilitarian styles of his predecessor, and it leads toward the Art Deco and Academic Gothic forms of his middle years.","narrative":"Built in 1924-1925 at 601-627 Carpenter Street in Philadelphia, the George W. Nebinger School is a four-story brick school designed by Irwin T. Catharine. It stands on a raised brick basement with a limestone dripcourse and stone sills, and it has a flat roof and a ground-floor entrance portico with Doric columns supporting an entablature. Panels of diapered brick decorate the sides near the front, and crosses set within diamonds appear at the parapet above each register on the front and sides. The school is significant for its architecture. Its design shows the intermediate styles Catharine developed as he moved away from the Colonial Revival and Utilitarian styles of his predecessor, H. deCourcy Richards, and it anticipates the Art Deco and Academic Gothic forms that characterize much of his middle-period work. The building is one of the contributing resources in the Philadelphia Public Schools thematic group.","period_of_significance":"1924-1925","architect_builder":"Irwin T. Catharine (architect)","architectural_style":"Art Deco/Utilitarian","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"School","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:36.776899-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/88002303.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/88002303/f6aaa55a19-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/88002303/f6aaa55a19-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Smallbones","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nebinger_School_Philly.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Smallbones</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nebinger_School_Philly.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71993514","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_W._Nebinger_School","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5545708"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/philadelphia/nebinger-george-w-school-88002303/"}