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Jay Cooke Junior High School

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Built
  
1922-1924

Area
  
6,900 m²

NRHP Reference #
  
88002259

Added to NRHP
  
18 November 1988

Jay Cooke Junior High School

Location
  
4735 Old York Rd., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

MPS
  
Philadelphia Public Schools TR

Address
  
Philadelphia, PA 19141, USA

Architectural style
  
Colonial Revival architecture

Similar
  
Fitzsimons Thomas High Sch, Jay Cooke Middle School, Myers Elementary, Cheltenh High School, Beeber Junior High School

Jay Cooke Junior High School is a historic junior high school building located in the Logan neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was designed by Irwin T. Catharine and built in 1922-1924. It is a three-story, 17 bay, brick building on a raised basement in the Colonial Revival-style. It features a projecting center entrance pavilion, stone pilasters, arched entrance openings, and a brick parapet. It was named for financier Jay Cooke (1821-1905).

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.

References

Jay Cooke Junior High School Wikipedia