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Eliza Butler Kirkbride School

1926 establishments in PennsylvaniaGothic Revival architecture in PennsylvaniaPassyunk Square, PhiladelphiaPublic K–8 schools in PhiladelphiaSchool District of Philadelphia
School buildings completed in 1926School buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Philadelphia
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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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Eliza Butler Kirkbride School
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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