National Register of Historic Places
Jefferson Elementary School
Pottstown, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania
The record
- Listed
- September 30, 2003
- Type
- Building
- Address
- Beech and Warren Sts., Pottstown
- County
- Montgomery
- State
- Pennsylvania
- Period of significance
- 1900 to 1974
- Contributing resources
- 1 building
- Coordinates
- 40.24856, -75.63900
- Reference number
- 03000723
The story
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Jefferson Elementary School is a school building at Beech and Warren Streets in Pottstown, Montgomery County, built in 1923 in the Classical Revival style and enlarged in 1939 and 1957.
Why it's listed
It was listed in the National Register in 2003 under criterion A, with local-level significance in education, its period running from 1923 to 1953 to reflect the school's 1923 construction and 1939 addition.
Physical character
The brick building has a brick foundation, limestone detailing with a stepped cornice and a Palladian window, arched windows, metal doors, and an asphalt roof. A two-story brick addition to the northeastern corner in 1939 gave it an L shape, and a 1957 rear wing addition created its U shape, marked with a datestone dated 1957. The nomination names Ritter & Shay and Gondos and Gondos as architects and Fred H. Keiser & Co. as builder, and one-over-one windows date to around the 1980s.
Historical context
Pennsylvania passed its Public School Law in 1834, and Jefferson Elementary opened in 1923 to students in first through eighth grade. It served as an elementary school through 1980, when the Pottstown Board of Education closed the school and the building was vacated, and a rehabilitation was planned in 2002.