Acorns & Oak @ Thomas Creighton School - Philadelphia, PA
N 40° 02.066 W 075° 06.326
18T E 491004 N 4431584
Another architecturally interesting school with frieze work out the ying yang, built of course in the twenties. School can be found in the northeast part of Philadelphia.
Waymark Code: WM9NM9
Location: Pennsylvania, United States
Date Posted: 09/09/2010
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Dominant northeastern foliage is featured promineantly over both front entrances at this local elementary school. The name of the school is also displayed handsomely in a frieze, Back in the 1920s it seems there was a prequesite of frieze for every Philadelphia elementary school, this school being no exception.
From my previous waymark:
According to the cornerstone on the bottom right of the building, this school was constructed in 1929, like so many of our other schools. Like so many of our other schools, there are fabulous friezes and interesting parapets to be seen. Our public schools which have made the NRHP, and there are a lot of them, were built with so much detail and character that to consider building one today would not only bankrupt the district but encourage protest and rioting.
Creighton is a K to 8 school. It was of course named after Thomas Creighton but short of calling the school and asking, there is no record of this fellow anywhere to be found. The neighborhood around the school was typical of our litter stained city, sirens in the background, people screaming, a police presence, adults and children walking the streets, throwing garbage every which way and eyeing me suspiciously and perhaps menacingly. NEVER visit this waymark at night.