David Landreth School

David Landreth School is a historic school building located in the Point Breeze neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.[2] It was built in 1889 after the original school caught fire (it had been on the nursery grounds of the D. Landreth Seed Company).[2][3]

David Landreth School
David Landreth School, May 2010
Location1201 S. Twenty-third St., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Coordinates39°56′16″N 75°10′54″W
Area1 acre (0.40 ha)
Built1889
Built byCharles McCaul
ArchitectJoseph W. Anshutz
Architectural styleGothic
MPSPhiladelphia Public Schools TR
NRHP reference No.86003299[1]
Added to NRHPDecember 4, 1986

It is a two-story, three-bay, brick building with a stone foundation in the Gothic Revival style. A three-story, nine-bay, yellow brick addition was built in 1928. It features a large corbelled brick cornice, sandstone sills and lintels, and three large brick chimneys with corbelled caps.[2] The school was named after the founder of the D. Landreth Seed Company.[3]

The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.[1]

References
  1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. "National Historic Landmarks & National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania" (Searchable database). CRGIS: Cultural Resources Geographic Information System. Note: This includes B. Mintz (July 1986). "Pennsylvania Historic Resource Survey Form: David Landreth School" (PDF). Retrieved 2012-07-03.
  3. Landreth, D. Seed Company (1920). D. Landreth Seed Company : [catalog]. LuEsther T. Mertz Library New York Botanical Garden. Bristol, PA Bloomsdale, PA Baltimore, MD New Freedom, PA : D. Landreth Seed Company.
  • Edmunds, Franklin Davenport (1917). The Public School Buildings of the City of Philadelphia from 1853 to 1867. Philadelphia: F.D. Edmunds. p. 106.
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