{"nrhp_refnum":"98000902","name":"Gallatin School","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"165 Gallatin Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Uniontown","county":"Fayette County","state":"PA","lat":39.897824823000064,"lon":-79.72196173399999,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1998-07-23","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Education"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A tall two-story, seven-by-eight-bay Classical Revival grammar school on North Gallatin Avenue, one of the main north-south streets in Uniontown, Fayette County, Pennsylvania. Built in 1908 with a rear addition in 1927, it is faced in buff brick with polychromed terra cotta trim.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the school is significant for its association with education in Uniontown, where it served as a grammar school for the Uniontown School District until the early 1980s. It is also significant architecturally for its high-style Classical Revival design, its polychromed terra cotta portico, and its ventilation and lighting features, which the nomination describes as advances for its time.","narrative":"Gallatin School is a two-story brick grammar school on North Gallatin Avenue in Uniontown, Fayette County, Pennsylvania, completed in 1908 to serve the prosperous northern section of the city. Its buff brick walls are set off by a tall portico and pediment of polychromed terra cotta in vivid colors, with GALLATIN SCHOOL cast in the frieze. The building measures about 80 by 130 feet and includes an octagonal central atrium in the 1908 portion. A rear addition was built in 1927 to take pressure off nearby Central School. The school was among the first multi-classroom grammar schools in Uniontown and incorporated new approaches to ventilation and lighting. It served the Uniontown School District as a grammar and elementary school until the early 1980s. Its design is also noted for the quality of its terra cotta work, which the nomination describes as unusually vibrant for the period.","period_of_significance":"1908-1948","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Classical Revival","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Windows were removed in a partial remodeling in 1987; the school served the district until it was closed in the early 1980s.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:37.974125-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/98000902.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/98000902/2e5fc869b1-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/98000902/2e5fc869b1-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Andre Carrotflower","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gallatin_School,_Uniontown,_Pennsylvania_-_20201011.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Andre Carrotflower</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gallatin_School,_Uniontown,_Pennsylvania_-_20201011.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71998416","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gallatin_School_(Uniontown,_Pennsylvania)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5518889"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/fayette-county/gallatin-school-98000902/"}