Frances E. Willard School is an elementary school located in the Port Richmond neighborhood of

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. It is part of the

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. The school is named for

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Frances Willard Frances Elizabeth Caroline Willard (September 28, 1839 – February 17, 1898) was an American educator, temperance reformer, and women's suffragist. Willard became the national president of Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) in 1879 an ...

. The original school building was designed by

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and built in 1907–1908. It is a four-story, three-bay, "E"-shaped, brick clad concrete building in the

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style. It features

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trim, a -story overscale arched opening, and brick

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. ''Note:'' This includes The building was added to the

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in 1987. In 2010, the school moved into a new building on Elkhart Street, just north of the old building.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Willard, Francis E., School School buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Philadelphia Neoclassical architecture in Pennsylvania School buildings completed in 1908 1908 establishments in Pennsylvania Public elementary schools in Philadelphia School District of Philadelphia