William Shoemaker Junior High School | |
Location: | 5301 Media St., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
Coordinates: | 39.9761°N -75.2283°W |
Built: | 1925 |
Architect: | Irwin T. Catharine |
Architecture: | Late Gothic Revival, Academic Gothic |
Added: | December 4, 1986 |
Refnum: | 86003328 |
The Mastery Charter School Shoemaker Campus, formerly the William Shoemaker Junior High School, is a historic, American high school/middle school that is located in the Carroll Park neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It is currently a charter school run by Mastery Charter Schools.
NBA center Wilt Chamberlain attended the school.
The building was designed by Irwin T. Catharine and built in 1925. It is a four-story, fourteen-bay, reinforced concrete, yellow brick-faced building. Designed in the Late Gothic Revival style, it features a central projecting entrance bay with Gothic arched door, thin brick piers with decorative caps, and brick panels in a herringbone pattern.[1]
The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.