{"nrhp_refnum":"88002321","name":"Shaw, Anna Howard, Junior High School","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"5401 Warrington St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Philadelphia","county":"Philadelphia","state":"PA","lat":39.94162113400006,"lon":-75.22669939199994,"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 junior high school with stone trim on a raised stone basement, located at 21st and Winter Streets in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was built in 1922-1924 by the School District of Philadelphia from a model designed by Irwin T. Catharine.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the school represents the district's post-World War I program of building schools designed specifically as junior high schools, a change tied to new educational theory. It describes the building as large for its era and in excellent integrity, and says it is significant for its place in the history of pedagogy and school architecture.","narrative":"Built in 1922-1924 by the School District of Philadelphia, this three-story brick building with stone trim sits on a raised stone basement at 21st and Winter Streets. Its front is shaped as a shallow W, with a projecting central pavilion topped by a balcony and a stone course bearing the school's name. Arched entrances with stone keystones and pilasters mark the stone first floor, and a brick parapet with a stone cornice crowns the roofline. The school was one of eight identical buildings erected from a model devised by Irwin T. Catharine, and its contract followed a period when the district began designing schools specifically as junior high schools. Its size was exceeded only by the senior high schools of the previous decade. It is regarded as an example of changing approaches to teaching and to school design in Philadelphia, and it retains excellent integrity.","period_of_significance":"1922-1924","architect_builder":"Irwin T. Catharine (architect); School District of Philadelphia (builder)","architectural_style":"Colonial Revival","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Current use is listed as school.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:36.707772-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/88002321.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/88002321/6e59442142-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/88002321/6e59442142-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Smallbones","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Shaw_School_Philly.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Smallbones</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Shaw_School_Philly.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71993735","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardy_Williams_Academy","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4767092"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/philadelphia/shaw-anna-howard-junior-high-school-88002321/"}