Grays Road Recreation Center is a historic

recreation center A leisure centre in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia (also called aquatic centres), Singapore and Canada is a purpose-built building or site, usually owned and operated by the city, borough council or municipal district council, where peopl ...

located in the

Grays Ferry Grays Ferry, also known as Gray's Ferry, is a neighborhood in South Philadelphia bounded (roughly) by 25th Street on the east, the Schuylkill River on the west, Vare Avenue on the south, and Grays Ferry Avenue on the north. The section of this nei ...

neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was designed by

John T. Windrim John Torrey Windrim (February 14, 1866 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania – June 27, 1934 in Devon, Pennsylvania) was an American architect. His long time chief designer was W. R. Morton Keast. He trained in the office of his father, architect Jam ...

and built in 1926–1927. It is a -story, five-bay by nine-bay, red-brick building on in the Colonial Revival style. It has a gable roof with dormers, centrally placed arched entryway with stone surround, and two internal brick chimneys. The interior features a two-story auditorium, measuring 50 feet by 30 feet. The building was funded by the Richard Smith Family Trust. ''Note:'' This includes It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.

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Buildings and structures on the National Register of Historic Places in Philadelphia Colonial Revival architecture in Pennsylvania Buildings and structures completed in 1927 South Philadelphia {{PhiladelphiaPA-NRHP-stub