{{Use American English|date=January 2025}} {{Use mdy dates|date=January 2025}} {{Infobox NRHP | name = Thomas Buchanan Read School | nrhp_type = | image = TB Read School Philly.JPG | caption = Thomas Buchanan Read School, June 2010 | location = 78th St. and Buist Ave., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania | coordinates = {{coord|39.9066|-75.2478|display=inline,title}} | locmapin = Philadelphia#Pennsylvania#USA | built = 1906-1908 | architect = Henry deCoursey Richards | builder = Stewart Construction Co. | architecture = Colonial Revival, Georgian Revival | added = December 4, 1986 | area = less than one acre | mpsub = {{NRHP url|id=64000730|title=Philadelphia Public Schools TR}} | refnum = 86003325<ref name="nris">{{NRISref|version=2010a}}</ref> }}
The '''Thomas Buchanan Read School''' is a historic American school building in the Elmwood Park 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 Henry deCoursey Richards and built between 1906 and 1908, this historic structure is a two-story, twenty-bay, red brick building with limestone trim. Created in the Georgian Revival style, it features a large projecting section, recessed entrance bays, brick piers with stone capitals, and a hipped roof with copper cupola.<ref name=nrhpdoc>{{cite report|type=none|url=https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71993597 |title=National Register of Historic Places Registration: Pennsylvania MPS Read, Thomas Buchanan, School|publisher=National Archives and Records Administration |author=B. Mintz| date = July 1986| access-date=January 8, 2026 }} ({{NationalArchivesNote}})</ref> It was named in honor of the poet and painter Thomas Buchanan Read.<ref>{{cite web |title=Thomas Buchanan Read School |url=https://www.philadelphiabuildings.org/pab/app/pj_display.cfm/89552 |website=www.philadelphabuildings.org |publisher=The Athenaeum of Philadelphia |access-date=26 January 2024}}</ref>
It was home to the Motivation High School before the latter moved to its current location on Baltimore Avenue in 2013.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://6abc.com/archive/9018966|title=4 Philadelphia schools saved, 23 closing after SRC vote|last=Matheson|first=Kathy|publisher=WPVI-TV|date=March 7, 2013|access-date=March 21, 2017}}</ref>
==References== {{reflist}}
{{Schools in Philadelphia}} {{National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Read, Thomas Buchanan, School}} Category:School buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Philadelphia Category:Georgian Revival architecture in Pennsylvania Category:School buildings completed in 1908 Category:School District of Philadelphia Category:Southwest Philadelphia Category:1908 establishments in Pennsylvania