{"nrhp_refnum":"96000712","name":"Noble, J. L. School","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"209 12th Ave., Juniata","address_restricted":false,"city":"Altoona","county":"Blair County","state":"PA","lat":40.53790819900007,"lon":-78.39267546999997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1996-07-11","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Education"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story brick school building over a basement at the southwest corner of Third Street and Twelfth Avenue on a hilltop in the Juniata neighborhood of Altoona, Blair County, Pennsylvania. It was built in 1912 by the Juniata Borough School Board, with a four-room annex added in 1929.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the school is significant for its role in the history of education in the Altoona area, as a neighborhood school built to relieve overcrowding and as the last school the Juniata board built before annexation. It is also argued to be a locally significant example of an early twentieth-century institutional building in the Renaissance Revival style.","narrative":"Built in 1912 on a hilltop overlooking the Juniata neighborhood of Altoona, the two-story brick school has a yellow tapestry brick face, cut brownstone trim and a rock-faced sandstone foundation. It was built by the Juniata Borough School Board to ease overcrowding in older schools and held eight classrooms. A four-room annex was added in 1929, after Juniata was annexed to Altoona, giving the building its rectangular plan. The front has a central pavilion with a neo-Palladian triple window beneath a Diocletian window and a brownstone-framed entrance. The interior partitions were largely removed for a planned reuse, though original stairwells with cast iron handrails survive. The building is regarded as a local example of early twentieth-century institutional design and as a record of the schooling provided to Juniata's working families.","period_of_significance":"1912-1946","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Renaissance Revival","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Not used as a school since the 1970s; held in private ownership and standing vacant.","vacant_flag":true,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:38.061062-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/96000712.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/96000712/8e5d857ee3-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/96000712/8e5d857ee3-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Nyttend","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:J.L._Noble_School_site_in_Juniata,_Altoona.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Nyttend</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:J.L._Noble_School_site_in_Juniata,_Altoona.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71994513","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.L._Noble_School","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6104195"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/blair-county/noble-j-l-school-96000712/"}