Overbrook Elementary 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 ...

in the Overbrook neighborhood of

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. It is part of the

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. The building was built in 1905–1907, and is a two-story, nine-bay brick building faced with

granite Granite () is a coarse-grained (phaneritic) intrusive igneous rock composed mostly of quartz, alkali feldspar, and plagioclase. It forms from magma with a high content of silica and alkali metal oxides that slowly cools and solidifies undergro ...

in the

Colonial Revival The Colonial Revival architectural style seeks to revive elements of American colonial architecture. The beginnings of the Colonial Revival style are often attributed to the Centennial Exhibition of 1876, which reawakened Americans to the archi ...

-style. It sits on a raised basement. An eight-bay addition designed by

Henry deCourcy Richards Henry deCourcy Richards, also spelled Henry deCoursey Richards, was an American architect who worked in Philadelphia for the public school system. He designed many public school buildings that have since been listed on the National Register of ...

was built in 1913–1914. It features a slightly projecting front gable. ''Note:'' This includes The building was added to the

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in 1988.

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* School buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Philadelphia Colonial Revival architecture in Pennsylvania School buildings completed in 1914 Overbrook, Philadelphia School District of Philadelphia Public elementary schools in Philadelphia 1914 establishments in Pennsylvania {{PhiladelphiaPA-NRHP-stub