Clara Barton School is a historic

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building located in the Feltonville neighborhood of

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. It was designed by Irwin T. Catharine and built in 1924-1925. It is a three-story, eight bay, yellow brick building in the

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-style. It features an entrance with decorative

terra cotta Terracotta, terra cotta, or terra-cotta (; ; ), in its material sense as an earthenware substrate, is a clay-based unglazed or glazed ceramic where the fired body is porous. In applied art, craft, construction, and architecture, terracotta ...

panels and a terra cotta cornice. ''Note:'' This includes It was named for American Red Cross founder Clara Barton (1821-1912). It was added to the

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in 1988.

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1925 establishments in Pennsylvania