{"nrhp_refnum":"88002317","name":"Roosevelt, Theodore, Junior High School","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"430 E. Washington Ln.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Philadelphia","county":"Philadelphia","state":"PA","lat":40.04820745100005,"lon":-75.17488114399998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1988-11-18","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Education","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A three-story brick school building with a raised stone basement at 430 East Washington Lane in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, built 1922-1924 for the School District of Philadelphia as a junior high school.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the school represents the district's early program of building junior high schools in response to changing educational theory, and that its design was a new architectural response to that need. It was one of eight identical buildings erected from a model devised by Irwin T. Catharine, and it is described as very large for its era. The form cites the areas of education and school architecture in Philadelphia.","narrative":"Built in 1922-1924 for the School District of Philadelphia, this three-story brick junior high school with a raised stone basement stands on a site of about five acres at 21st and Winter Streets. Its front is shaped in a shallow W, with a projecting central pavilion bearing the school's name in a stone course, and its Colonial Revival detailing includes stone trim, arched entrances and a stone cornice beneath the brick parapet. The building was one of eight identical schools erected from a model devised by Irwin T. Catharine, part of the district's early effort to build schools designed specifically as junior highs after World War I. Its scale was large for the period, exceeded only by the senior high schools of the previous decade. It is listed for its place in the history of education and for its contribution to school architecture in Philadelphia, and the design is regarded as an innovative response to new teaching needs. The building is in very good integrity, with a rear addition from 1969 that does not change its main design.","period_of_significance":"1922-1924","architect_builder":"Irwin T. Catharine (architect)","architectural_style":"Colonial Revival","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Good condition; in use as a school; a 1969 rear addition is noted as not compromising design integrity.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:36.590331-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/88002317.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/88002317/5ab7bcdd07-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/88002317/5ab7bcdd07-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Smallbones","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:T_Roosevelt_School_Philly.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Smallbones</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:T_Roosevelt_School_Philly.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71993733","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roosevelt_Elementary_School_(Philadelphia)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7782002"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/philadelphia/roosevelt-theodore-junior-high-school-88002317/"}