{{Use mdy dates|date=January 2025}} {{Use American English|date=January 2025}} {{Infobox NRHP | name = Lydia Darrah School | nrhp_type = | image = Lydia Darrah School.JPG | caption = Lydia Darrah School, August 2010 | location = 708-732 N. Seventeenth St., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania | coordinates = {{coord|39.9681|-75.1655|region:US-PA_type:edu|format=dms|display=inline,title}} | locmapin = Philadelphia#Pennsylvania#USA | built = 1926-1927 | architect = Catharine, Irwin T. | architecture = Moderne | added = December 4, 1986 | area = less than one acre | mpsub = {{NRHP url|id=64000730|title=Philadelphia Public Schools TR}} | refnum = 86003269<ref name="nris">{{NRISref|version=2010a}}</ref> }} The '''Lydia Darrah School''' is an historic school building which is located in the Francisville neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.<ref name="nris"/>
==History and architectural features== Designed by Irwin T. Catharine, this historic structure was built between 1926 and 1927. It is a three-story, rectangular, brick building with a raised basement, which was created in the Moderne-style. It features terracotta trim, fluted columns, and an undulating parapet wall.<ref name=nrhpdoc>{{cite report|type=none|url=https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71993675 |title=National Register of Historic Places Registration: Pennsylvania MPS Darrah, Lydia, School|publisher=National Archives and Records Administration |author= B. Mintz|date= September 1986| access-date=January 5, 2026 }} ({{NationalArchivesNote}})</ref> It was named for Revolutionary War figure Lydia Darrah (1728-1789).
==References== {{reflist}}
{{National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Darrah, Lydia, School}} Category:School buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Philadelphia Category:Moderne architecture in Pennsylvania Category:School buildings completed in 1927 Category:Lower North Philadelphia Category:1927 establishments in Pennsylvania