The William S. Peirce School is a historic school building that is located in the

Southwest Center City Southwest Center City (SWCC), also known as Graduate Hospital, is a neighborhood in South Philadelphia bordering Center City Philadelphia. The neighborhood is bordered on the north by South Street, on the south by Washington Avenue, on the west b ...

neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. 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 between 1928 and 1929, it is a four-story, nine-bay, brick building that sits on a raised basement. Created in the

Late Gothic Revival Gothic Revival (also referred to as Victorian Gothic, neo-Gothic, or Gothick) is an architectural movement that began in the late 1740s in England. The movement gained momentum and expanded in the first half of the 19th century, as increasingly ...

-style, it features pilasters with limestone caps and a projecting entrance pavilion with an arched opening. ''Note:'' This includes

History

This historic building opened in 1928 as a K-8 school, but elementary grades were dropped in 1988. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1988. By 2002 Universal Companies took control of the school. The school has been closed since 2007, although the building is still owned by the School District of Philadelphia.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Peirce, William S., School School buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Philadelphia Gothic Revival architecture in Pennsylvania School buildings completed in 1929 Southwest Center City, Philadelphia Defunct schools in Pennsylvania 1929 establishments in Pennsylvania