Roosevelt Elementary School (Philadelphia)

Roosevelt Elementary School is a historic American K–8 school in the Morton neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It is part of the School District of Philadelphia.

Theodore Roosevelt Junior High School
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Theodore Roosevelt Junior High School, October 2010
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Location	430 E. Washington Ln., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Coordinates	40.0483°N 75.1752°W / 40.0483; -75.1752
Area	5 acres (2.0 ha)
Built	1922–1924
Architect	Irwin T. Catharine
Architectural style	Colonial Revival
MPS	Philadelphia Public Schools TR
NRHP reference No.	88002317[1]
Added to NRHP	November 18, 1988

The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.^[1]

History and architectural features

This building was designed by Irwin T. Catharine and built between 1922 and 1924. It is a three-story, seventeen-bay, brick building that sits on a raised basement. Created in the Colonial Revival style, it features a central projecting entrance pavilion of brick and stone, with stone pilasters, and a stone cornice and brick parapet.^[2] The school was named for President Theodore Roosevelt.

The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.^[1]

In the spring of 2013, this school had roughly 320 students in grades seven and eight. That year, Robert Fulton Elementary School, less than 1 mile (1.6 km) walking distance, closed, and its students, from the former school zone in the center of Germantown, were moved to Roosevelt.

Principal Byron Ryan began his term in the fall of 2013.^[3]