Mastery Charter School Shoemaker Campus

	William Shoemaker Junior High School
	U.S. National Register of Historic Places
	William Shoemaker Junior High School, June 2010
Location	5301 Media St.,; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Coordinates	39°58′34″N 75°13′42″W / 39.9761°N 75.2283°W
Area	3 acres (1.2 ha)
Built	1925
Architect	Irwin T. Catharine
Architectural style	Late Gothic Revival, Academic Gothic
MPS	Philadelphia Public Schools TR
NRHP reference No.	86003328
Added to NRHP	December 4, 1986

The Mastery Charter School Shoemaker Campus, formerly the William Shoemaker Junior High School, is a historic, American high school/middle school that is located in the Carroll Park neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It is currently a charter school run by Mastery Charter Schools.

NBA center Wilt Chamberlain attended the school.

History and architectural features

The building was designed by Irwin T. Catharine and built in 1925. It is a four-story, fourteen-bay, reinforced concrete, yellow brick-faced building. Designed in the Late Gothic Revival 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.^[2]

The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
^ "National Historic Landmarks & National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania" (Searchable database). CRGIS: Cultural Resources Geographic Information System. Note: This includes Doebley, C. (1982-06-14). "William B. Shoemaker J.H. School" (PDF). Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission Office of Historic Preservation. Retrieved 2012-07-03. and Mintz, B. (July 1986). "Wm Shoemaker Jr. High School" (PDF). Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission Office of Historic Preservation. Retrieved 2012-07-03.

External links

Official website

[nris-1] "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.

[arch-2] "National Historic Landmarks & National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania" (Searchable database). CRGIS: Cultural Resources Geographic Information System. Note: This includes Doebley, C. (1982-06-14). "William B. Shoemaker J.H. School" (PDF). Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission Office of Historic Preservation. Retrieved 2012-07-03. and Mintz, B. (July 1986). "Wm Shoemaker Jr. High School" (PDF). Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission Office of Historic Preservation. Retrieved 2012-07-03.

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