{"nrhp_refnum":"97000520","name":"Williams, Roger, Public School No. 10","other_names":["South Scranton Catholic High School"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"901 Prospect Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Scranton","county":"Lackawanna County","state":"PA","lat":41.394102168000074,"lon":-75.66541433499998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1997-06-13","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Education"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story brick former public school building with a Late Victorian and Revival style design, located at the corner of Prospect and Beech Streets on Scranton's South Side in Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania. It was constructed c. 1896 and later used as a Catholic high school and then Lackawanna Junior College.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the building is a well-preserved example of a late nineteenth-century Scranton school, with a high degree of integrity in its exterior and interior public spaces. It is also tied to the consolidation of Scranton's schools and to later Catholic secondary education in the city. The building's architectural form and massing are described as representative of the period.","narrative":"Built c. 1896 at the corner of Prospect and Beech Streets in Scranton's South Side, this two-story red brick school stands on a rusticated stone foundation beneath a hipped roof. Its central entrance tower, round-headed sandstone arches and stucco wall panels blend Late Victorian massing with Revival-style details. The city's school district, consolidated in 1874, built larger schools like this one during a population boom in the 1880s and 1890s. Named Roger Williams Public School No. 10 in 1916, it served local children until closing in 1941. During the war the building was used as a factory. Bishop William J. Hafey moved a Catholic high school into it in 1947, and a 1965 addition was built to the east and north. Its interior stairs, corridors and classroom trim retain much of their original finish, which is why the building is valued as a rare survivor among the district's early schools.","period_of_significance":"1896-1941","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Late Victorian; Late 19th and 20th Century Revivals","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Currently occupied by Lackawanna Junior College, which purchased the property in 1982; the original roofing has been replaced with asphalt shingles.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:36.202486-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/97000520.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/97000520/ca71344072-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/97000520/ca71344072-1600.webp","licence":"CC0","author":"Smallbones","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Roger_Williams_Public_School_No_10_Scranton_PA.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Smallbones</a>, <a href=\"http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/deed.en\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Roger_Williams_Public_School_No_10_Scranton_PA.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71998117","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Williams_Public_School_No._10","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7359137"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/lackawanna-county/williams-roger-public-school-no-10-97000520/"}