David Landreth School

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{{Infobox NRHP

| name = David Landreth School

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| image = Landreth School Philly.JPG

| caption = David Landreth School, May 2010

| location = 1201 S. Twenty-third St., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

| coordinates = {{coord|39.9377|-75.1817|region:US-PA_type:edu|format=dms|display=inline,title}}

| locmapin = Philadelphia#Pennsylvania#USA

| built = 1889

| architect = Joseph W. Anshutz

| builder = Charles McCaul

| architecture = Gothic

| added = December 4, 1986

| area = {{convert|1|acre}}

| mpsub = {{NRHP url|id=64000730|title=Philadelphia Public Schools TR}}

| refnum = 86003299{{NRISref|version=2010a}}

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David Landreth School is a historic school building located in the Point Breeze neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was built in 1889 after the original school caught fire (it had been on the nursery grounds of the D. Landreth Seed Company).{{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/DLandrethSeedCo00LandA|title=D. Landreth Seed Company : [catalog]|last=Landreth|first=D. Seed Company|date=1920|publisher=Bristol, PA Bloomsdale, PA Baltimore, MD New Freedom, PA : D. Landreth Seed Company|others=LuEsther T. Mertz Library New York Botanical Garden}}

It is a two-story, three-bay, brick building with a stone foundation in the Gothic Revival style. A three-story, nine-bay, yellow brick addition was built in 1928. It features a large corbelled brick cornice, sandstone sills and lintels, and three large brick chimneys with corbelled caps.{{cite web| url = https://www.dot7.state.pa.us/ce/SelectWelcome.asp| title = National Historic Landmarks & National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania| publisher = CRGIS: Cultural Resources Geographic Information System| format = Searchable database| access-date = 2012-07-07| archive-date = 2007-07-21| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070721014609/https://www.dot7.state.pa.us/ce/SelectWelcome.asp| url-status = dead}} Note: This includes {{cite web| url = {{NRHP-PA|H052426_01D.pdf}}| title = Pennsylvania Historic Resource Survey Form: David Landreth School| access-date = 2012-07-03| author = B. Mintz| format = PDF| date = July 1986}} The school was named after the founder of the D. Landreth Seed Company.

The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.

The Queen Memorial Branch of the Philadelphia Public Library opened in its current location within the Landreth School building on Tuesday, January 17, 1995 in the Landreth Apartments, a residence for seniors that occupies the former school. Mamie Nichols, then Executive Director of the Point Breeze Federation, was a prime leader behind the renovation of the school into a "multi-purpose achievement center."{{cite web | url=http://libwww.freelibrary.org/locations/queen-memorial-library#:~:text=Queen%20Memorial%20Library%20was%20founded,1313%2D15%20Point%20Breeze%20Avenue. | title=Queen Memorial Library }}