James R. Ludlow School


The James R. Ludlow School is a historic American K-8 elementary school in the Yorktown neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It is in the School District of Philadelphia.
The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.
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History and architectural features

The school building is a Gothic Revival structure that was designed by architect Irwin T. Catharine and built between 1926 and 1927. It is a heavily constructed, three-story brick building, nine bays wide with projecting end bays, and was created in the Late Gothic Revival-style. Like many similarly-designed Gothic Revival schools in Philadelphia, it features rib vault, heavily tiled corridors, and a stone entrance pavilion with a Tudor-arched opening.
The school was named for the Honorable James Reilly Ludlow, or “Judge Ludlow”, president judge of the Court of Common Pleas, No. 3, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania.
Ludlow School is located near the National Shrine of St. John Neumann, and near Philadelphia’s up-and-coming Fishtown neighborhood. St. John Neumann was a Bishop of Philadelphia who largely organized and expanded Philadelphia's diocesan school system.