Area less than one acre Architectural style Italianate architecture | Built 1874-1875, 1886-1887 | |
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Location McCallum and Haines Sts., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania MPS Philadelphia Public Schools TR NRHP Reference # 86003287, 06000430 (boundary increase) Added to NRHP December 1, 1986, May 19, 2006 (boundary increase) | ||
Germantown Grammar School, also known as Lafayette Grammar School and Opportunities Industrial Center, Inc., are two historic school buildings located in the Germantown neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Germantown Grammar School #1 was built in 1874-1875, and is a three-story, serpentine brownstone building in a combined Italianate / Gothic-style. It has a two-story addition dated to the 1980s. It features dressed brownstone trim; a projecting, pedimented front section; and projecting cross-gables. Germantown Grammar School #2 was built in 1886-1887, and is a two-story, four bay by nine bay, brick building faced in Wissahickon schist in a vernacular Italianate-style.
It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1986. A boundary increase occurred in 2006 and discussion is currently underway to increase the boundary again in 2020. No comments have been made as to how much the boundary will increase by.