Melon St. S of Twelfth St., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. County/parish: Philadelphia.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places December 04, 1986. NRIS 86003333.
Part of Philadelphia Public Schools TR (NRIS 64000730).
1 contributing building.
Spring Garden School is a public K-8 school in the Poplar neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It is a part of the School District of Philadelphia.
The historic school building originally housed Spring Garden School No. 2. It was designed by Irwin T. Catharine and built in 1930–1931. It is a three-story, 16 bay orange brick building in the Art Deco-style. It features corbelled brick pilasters with capitals adorned by floral motifs and a caged rooftop play area.
It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.
The Spring Garden attendance boundary includes a portion of the Center City District just north of the traditional boundary of Center City. Residents zoned to Spring Garden are zoned to Benjamin Franklin High School. As of 2016 over 70% of students who graduate from Spring Garden instead go to special admission and magnet schools such as Bodine High School for International Affairs, Carver High School for Science and Engineering, Constitution High School, Parkway High School, and Philadelphia High School for Girls.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71993488