David Landreth School is a historic

school A school is the educational institution (and, in the case of in-person learning, the Educational architecture, building) designed to provide learning environments for the teaching of students, usually under the direction of teachers. Most co ...

building located in the Point Breeze neighborhood of

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. It was built in 1889 after the original school caught fire (it had been on the nursery grounds of the D. Landreth Seed Company). It is a two-story, three-bay, brick building with a stone foundation in the

Gothic Revival Gothic Revival (also referred to as Victorian Gothic or neo-Gothic) is an Architectural style, architectural movement that after a gradual build-up beginning in the second half of the 17th century became a widespread movement in the first half ...

style. A three-story, nine-bay, yellow brick addition was built in 1928. It features a large corbelled brick cornice,

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sills and lintels, and three large brick chimneys with corbelled caps. ''Note:'' This includes The school was named after the founder of the D. Landreth Seed Company. The building was added to the

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in 1986. The Queen Memorial Branch of the Philadelphia Public Library opened in its current location within the Landreth School building on Tuesday, January 17, 1995 in the Landreth Apartments, a residence for seniors that occupies the former school. Mamie Nichols, then Executive Director of the Point Breeze Federation, was a prime leader behind the renovation of the school into a "multi-purpose achievement center."

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Landreth, David, School School buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Philadelphia Gothic Revival architecture in Pennsylvania School buildings completed in 1889 South Philadelphia