Joseph Anschutz Explained

Joseph Anschutz, or Joseph Anshutz, was an American architect who designed schools in the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania area.

He designed approximately 75 schools, some nearly identical.^[1]

Works designed or co-designed by Anschutz that have been listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places include:

listed as Joseph Anschutz or Joseph W. Anschutz

• George W. Childs School, 1501 S. 17th St., Philadelphia PA
• Watson Comly School, 13250 Trevose Rd., Philadelphia PA
• Francis M. Drexel School, 1800 S. Sixteenth St., Philadelphia PA
• William Levering School, 5938 Ridge Ave., Philadelphia PA
• James Martin School, 3340 Richmond St., Philadelphia PA
• Philip H. Sheridan School, 800–818 E. Ontario St., Philadelphia PA

listed as Joseph W. Anshutz or J.W. Anshutz or Joseph Anshutz

• Germantown Grammar School (Boundary Increase), 45 W. Haines St., Philadelphia PA
• Francis Scott Key School, 2226–2250 S. Eighth St., Philadelphia PA
• David Landreth School, 1201 S. Twenty-third St., Philadelphia PA

The Landreth School has been redeveloped.^[2]

• Thomas Powers School, Frankford Ave. and Somerset St., Philadelphia PA

An early 20th-century article that uses the "Anshutz" spelling says he also co-designed Philadelphia's Central High School.^[3]

See also

• Louis Anshutz, an architect who designed two NRHP-listed Philadelphia schools

Notes and References

1. Web site: Drexel page . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20100421083252/http://www.thedrexelschool.com/ . 2010-04-21 .
2. https://web.archive.org/web/20071020000133/http://www.pennrose.com/portfolio/landreth.shtml Pennrose page about Landreth
3. https://www.jstor.org/pss/1075512 "The Central High School of Philadelphia," The School Review, Vol. 11, no. 4, April 1903.