[Newton Combined Boys' Grammar, Secondary and Primary School] Newton Combined Boys' Grammar, Secondary and Primary School,/Thirty-sixth and Chestnut Streets./Twenty-seventh Section. Local ID #: 441 Custis, John Trevor. The Public Schools of Philadelphia, Historical, Biographical, Statistical. Philadelphia: Burk & McFetridge Co., 1897., p. 439-441 > View more images [2 total]

Overview

• Building Type: school

Location

LUDLOW ST (Below 36th Street)
S 36TH ST near CHESTNUT ST
Philadelphia, PA

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The school was established in 1855. This building was within the twenty-seventh section: "The boundaries of the Twenty-seventh Ward of the City of Philadelphia, which comprises the Twenty-seventh Section of the First School District of Pennsylvania, are the Schuylkill River on the east, and Market Street on the north," (Curtis, p. 439).

This building was within the twenty-seventh section: "The boundaries of the Twenty-seventh Ward of the City of Philadelphia, which comprises the Twenty-seventh Section of the First School District of Pennsylvania, are the Schuylkill River on the east, and Market Street on the north," (Curtis, p. 439).

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