Eliza Butler Kirkbride School
Eliza Butler Kirkbride School is a K–8 school located in the Passyunk Square neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It is a part of the School District of Philadelphia. The historic school building was designed by Irwin T. Catharine and built in 1925–1926. It is a four-story, five-bay, yellow reinforced concrete building faced in brick and limestone in the Late Gothic Revival-style. It features a projecting central entrance with floral and heraldic plaques in the spandrel, decorative panels, and a crenellated parapet. Each register contains three openings with limestone sills and lintels. A limestone dripcourse appears over the basement openings. The projecting end registers feature window bands with ornamental panels between the floors. These panels were a standard feature on some of Catharine's designs and often contained the datestone as one of the decorative panels.It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.
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Dickinson Street, Philadelphia South Philadelphia
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Elizabeth B. Kirkbride School (Kirkbride School;Eliza Butler Kirkbride School)
Dickinson Street
19147 Philadelphia, South Philadelphia
Pennsylvania, United States
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