AMY Northwest Middle School
William Levering School | |
 William Levering School, June 2010 | |
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| Location | 6000 Ridge Ave., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States |
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| Coordinates | 40°01′52″N 75°12′47″W / 40.0311°N 75.2130°W |
| Area | 2.1 acres (0.85 ha) |
| Built | 1894–1896, 1928–1929 |
| Architect | Joseph W. Anschutz, Irwin T. Catharine |
| Architectural style | Colonial Revival, Art Deco |
| MPS | Philadelphia Public Schools TR |
| NRHP reference No. | 88002292[1] |
| Added to NRHP | November 18, 1988 |
The Academy for the Middle Years (AMY) Northwest Middle School, formerly the William Levering School, is a historic middle school located in the Roxborough neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. It is part of the School District of Philadelphia.
It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.[1]
History and architectural features
[edit]The school consists of two distinct buildings. The original section was built between 1894 and 1896, and is a two-and-one-half-story, five-bay, stone building with a hipped roofhich was designed in the Colonial Revival style.[2]
A three-story addition was built immediately to the south of the first building between 1928 and 1929. It is a brick and stone Art Deco-style building designed by Irwin T. Catharine.[2]
Both buildings were added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.[1]
In 2012, the School Reform Commission of the Philadelphia School District closed it as an elementary school;[3] it then reopened as a selective admission middle school, AMY Northwest.[4]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
- ^ a b "National Historic Landmarks & National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania". CRGIS: Cultural Resources Geographic Information System. Archived from the original (Searchable database) on 2007-07-21. Retrieved 2012-07-04. Note: This includes Jefferson M. Moak (May 1987). "Pennsylvania Historic Resource Survey Form: William Levering School" (PDF). Retrieved 2012-07-03.
- ^ "School Reform Commission votes to close Levering; AMY Northwest to move in — NewsWorks". Archived from the original on 2016-03-05. Retrieved 2014-07-25.
- ^ "AMY Northwest - the School District of Philadelphia". Archived from the original on 2014-07-27. Retrieved 2014-07-25.
External links
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| Authority control databases: Geographic |
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- School buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Philadelphia
- Colonial Revival architecture in Pennsylvania
- Art Deco architecture in Pennsylvania
- School buildings completed in 1929
- Roxborough, Philadelphia
- School District of Philadelphia
- Public middle schools in Pennsylvania
- 1894 establishments in Pennsylvania