Joseph W. Catharine School is a historic

elementary school A primary school (in Ireland, the United Kingdom, Australia, Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica, and South Africa), junior school (in Australia), elementary school or grade school (in North America and the Philippines) is a school for primary ed ...

located in the Mount Moriah neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It is part of the School District of Philadelphia. The building was designed by

Irwin T. Catharine Irwin Thornton Catharine (October 22, 1883 – March 3, 1944) was the chief architect of Philadelphia Public school (government funded), public schools from 1920 until his retirement in 1937. Buildings built during Catharine's tenure ranged from ...

and built in 1937–1938. It is a three-story, six bay, yellow brick in the

Moderne Moderne may refer to: * Moderne architecture, styles of architecture popular from 1925–1940s * PWA Moderne, an architectural style in the U.S., 1933–1944 * Streamline Moderne Streamline Moderne is an international style of Art Deco archit ...

-style. It features a main entrance with decorative stone surround, stone sills, and stone coping atop the building. ''Note:'' This includes The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.

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* School buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Philadelphia Moderne architecture in Pennsylvania School buildings completed in 1938 School District of Philadelphia Southwest Philadelphia Public elementary schools in Philadelphia {{PhiladelphiaPA-NRHP-stub