626 Dickinson St., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. County/parish: Philadelphia.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places November 18, 1988. NRIS 88002290.
1 contributing building.
Eliza Butler Kirkbride School is a Kâ8 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 1925â1926. 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.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71993649