David Landreth School

David Landreth School is a historic school building located in the Point Breeze neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.^[2] It was built in 1889 after the original school caught fire (it had been on the nursery grounds of the D. Landreth Seed Company).^[2][3]

David Landreth School
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
David Landreth School, May 2010
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Location	1201 S. Twenty-third St., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Coordinates	39°56′16″N 75°10′54″W
Area	1 acre (0.40 ha)
Built	1889
Built by	Charles McCaul
Architect	Joseph W. Anshutz
Architectural style	Gothic
MPS	Philadelphia Public Schools TR
NRHP reference No.	86003299[1]
Added to NRHP	December 4, 1986

It is a two-story, three-bay, brick building with a stone foundation in the Gothic Revival style. A three-story, nine-bay, yellow brick addition was built in 1928. It features a large corbelled brick cornice, sandstone sills and lintels, and three large brick chimneys with corbelled caps.^[2] The school was named after the founder of the D. Landreth Seed Company.^[3]

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

The Queen Memorial Branch of the Philadelphia Public Library opened in its current location within the Landreth School building on Tuesday, January 17, 1995 in the Landreth Apartments, a residence for seniors that occupies the former school. Mamie Nichols, then Executive Director of the Point Breeze Federation, was a prime leader behind the renovation of the school into a "multi-purpose achievement center."^[4]