Mastery Charter School Shoemaker Campus


The Mastery Charter School Shoemaker Campus, formerly the William Shoemaker Junior High School, is a historic, American high school/middle school that is located in the Carroll [Park, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania|Carroll Park] neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It is currently a Charter schools in [the United States|charter school] run by Mastery Charter Schools.
NBA center Wilt Chamberlain attended the school.

History and architectural features

The building was designed by Irwin T. Catharine and built in 1925. It is a four-story, fourteen-bay, reinforced concrete, yellow brick-faced building. Designed in the Late Gothic Revival style, it features a central projecting entrance bay with Gothic arched door, thin brick piers with decorative caps, and brick panels in a herringbone pattern.
The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.