The Mastery Charter School Shoemaker Campus, formerly the William Shoemaker Junior High School, is an historic, American high school/ middle school that is located in the

Carroll Park Carroll Park is a nearly public park located in the historic Washington Village-Pigtown neighborhood in southwestern Baltimore, Maryland. The park is bordered by Washington Boulevard to the south, Monroe Street to the west, Bayard Street to t ...

neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It is currently a charter school run by Mastery Charter Schools.

History and architectural features

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 1925. It is a four-story, fourteen-bay, reinforced concrete, yellow brick-faced building. Designed 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 a central projecting entrance bay with Gothic arched door, thin brick piers with decorative caps, and brick panels in a herringbone pattern. ''Note:'' This includes and The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Shoemaker, William, Junior High School School buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Philadelphia Gothic Revival architecture in Pennsylvania School buildings completed in 1925 Charter schools in Pennsylvania West Philadelphia Public middle schools in Pennsylvania Public elementary schools in Pennsylvania 1925 establishments in Pennsylvania