Lea, Henry C., School of Practice
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Henry C. Lea Elementary School is a historic elementary school in the Walnut Hill neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Part of the School District of Philadelphia, it was named after the publisher, civic activist and historian Henry Charles Lea. The school is supported by the University of Pennsylvania through a program where multiple Penn-affiliated schools, departments, and centers work with Lea students and staff. The building was designed by Henry deCourcy Richards and built by Cramp & Co. in 1914. It is a three-story, five-bay, reinforced concrete building that was faced with brick and with terra cotta and granite trim. It sits on a raised basement, was designed in the Late Gothic Revival-style, and features a Classical limestone center entrance surround, a central two-story bay window, decorative panels, crenelated parapet, and a projecting entrance bay. It was previously used as an "observation school" for teacher education and training. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1988 as the Henry C. Lea School of Practice. Lea Elementary at the Wayback Machine (archive index)
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Lea, Henry C., School of Practice was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on November 18, 1988.
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Lea, Henry C., School of Practice is classified as a building in the National Register of Historic Places.
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