This historic structure is a three-story, seventeen-bay, brick building that sits on a raised stone basement.

Begun in 1969 by John Bremer,[5] the Parkway Program was a pioneering and influential public alternative school.

[6] The school sought to make use of many of the libraries and museums along Benjamin Franklin Parkway, hence the program's name.

[6] The Parkway Program quickly gained renown and was featured in Time Magazine in its March 23, 1970 edition.

[6] More specifically, Parkway Gamma was located at 3833 Walnut Street in the University City section of West Philadelphia.