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It was a part of the School District of Philadelphia. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1986. [1] As of 2017, the school building is now home to Building 21, a public high school in the innovative school district network.
The building is currently the home The U School, an innovative high school in the School District of Philadelphia. [3] The U School and Building 21, two schools with a non-selective lottery-based admissions process, opened at the Ferguson building during the 2014–2015 school year.
The Philadelphia skyline as seen from Boathouse Row in June 2019 (annotated version) The Philadelphia skyline as seen from the Delaware River in February 2023. Philadelphia, the largest city in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania, is home to more than 300 completed high-rise buildings and skyscrapers up to 330 feet (101 m), [1] and 58 completed skyscrapers of 330 feet (101 m) or taller, [2] of ...
Philadelphia: Tallest building completed in Philadelphia in the 1970s [60] [61] 27: The St. James: 498 / 152: 45: 2004: Philadelphia: Tallest building located east of Broad Street [62] [63] When constructed in 2003, the St. James was the tallest apartment building in Philadelphia. [64] 28: Loews Philadelphia Hotel: 492 / 150: 36: 1932: Philadelphia
Liberty Place is a skyscraper complex in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.The complex is composed of a 61-story, 945-foot (288 m) skyscraper called One Liberty Place, a 58-story, 848-foot (258 m) skyscraper called Two Liberty Place, a two-story shopping mall called the Shops at Liberty Place, and the 14-story Westin Philadelphia Hotel.
The North American Building is an 81 m (266 ft), 21-story, historic high-rise building at 121 South Broad Street in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.The building was designed by Philadelphia architect James H. Windrim (1840–1919) as the headquarters of the newspaper The North American and commissioned by Thomas B. Wanamaker, the newspaper's publisher and son of John Wanamaker, the department store ...
It is a three-story, brick-faced reinforced concrete building, five bays wide with terra cotta trim, and has a Classical Revival-style entrance surround with entablature. [3] It is named for John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892). It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1988. [1] The school was closed in 2013. [2]
The Promise Academy at Roberts Vaux High School (commonly referred to as the Roberts Vaux Promise Academy) is an historic, American high school building that is located in the North Central neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.