National Register of Historic Places
Knoxville Junior High School
Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania
The record
- Listed
- February 3, 1987
- Type
- Building
- Address
- Charles and Grimes Aves., Pittsburgh
- County
- Allegheny
- State
- Pennsylvania
- Period of significance
- 1925 to 1949
- Contributing resources
- 1 building
- Coordinates
- 40.41620, -79.99438
- Reference number
- 86002673
The story
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Knoxville Junior High School is a school building at Charles and Grimes Aves. in Pittsburgh, built between 1927 and 1940 and blending Tudor Revival with Art Deco.
Why it's listed
It was listed in the National Register in 1987 under criterion C, with local significance in architecture from 1921 to 1940, covering its 1927-1940 construction. Press C. Dowler and Marion M. Steen are named as architects.
Physical character
The brick walls carry a stone beltcourse and coping, a tall Tudor arched opening and a panel of Gothic tracery. Inside are terrazzo hallway floors and marble wainscoting. A cafeteria and boiler room wing was added in 1931; an auditorium, gym and pool in 1935.