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Also known as: James L. Claghorn School (1884)
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[James L. Claghorn Combined Grammar, Secondary and Primary School] James L. Claghorn Combined Grammar, Secondary and Primary School,/Seventeenth Street and Susquehanna Avenue./Thirty-second Section. Local ID #: 499 Custis, John Trevor. <i>The Public Schools of Philadelphia, Historical, Biographical, Statistical</i>. Philadelphia: Burk & McFetridge Co., 1897., p. 497, 499
[James L. Claghorn Combined Grammar, Secondary and Primary School]
James L. Claghorn Combined Grammar, Secondary and Primary School,/Seventeenth Street and Susquehanna Avenue./Thirty-second Section.
Local ID #: 499
Custis, John Trevor. The Public Schools of Philadelphia, Historical, Biographical, Statistical. Philadelphia: Burk & McFetridge Co., 1897., p. 497, 499

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  • Building Type: school

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N 17TH ST near W SUSQUEHANNA AVE
Philadelphia, PA

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The building was within the thirty-second section: "The boundaries of the Thirty-second Ward of the City of Philadelphia, which comprises the Thirty-second Section of the First School District of Pennsylvania, are the Schuylkill River, Montgomery Avenue, Eleventh Street and Susquehanna Avenue," (Curtis, p. 497).

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