Mary Disston School
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Mary Disston School | |
Location | 4521 Longshore Ave., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
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Coordinates | 40°01′39″N 75°02′38″W / 40.0274°N 75.0440°W |
Area | 2.8 acres (1.1 ha) |
Built | 1900–1901, 1967 |
Built by | Harry Kuemmerle |
Architect | Andrew Sauer |
Architectural style | Colonial Revival |
MPS | Philadelphia Public Schools TR |
NRHP reference No. | 88002319[1] |
Added to NRHP | November 18, 1988 |
Mary Disston School is a historic school building located in the Tacony neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was built in 1900–1901, and is a two-story, three-bay, U-shaped stone building in the Colonial Revival style. A rear addition was built in 1967. It features a recessed central entrance with columnaded porch, arched openings, and a balcony; a central Palladian window; and hipped roof.[2]
It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.[1] For a time the building was home to St. Josaphat's Ukrainian Catholic Church.
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School in 2016
References
[edit]- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
- ^ "National Historic Landmarks & National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania" (Searchable database). CRGIS: Cultural Resources Geographic Information System. Note: This includes Jefferson M. Moak (June 1987). "Pennsylvania Historic Resource Survey Form: Mary Disston School" (PDF). Retrieved 2012-07-03.
Categories:
- School buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Philadelphia
- Colonial Revival architecture in Pennsylvania
- School buildings completed in 1901
- Northeast Philadelphia
- Defunct schools in Pennsylvania
- Former churches in Pennsylvania
- 1901 establishments in Pennsylvania
- Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania Registered Historic Place stubs