Samuel W. Pennypacker School

The Samuel W. Pennypacker School is an historic, American elementary school that is located in the West Oak Lane neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

[1] Designed by Irwin T. Catharine, this historic structure was built between 1929 and 1930.

A three-story, eight-bay, brick building that sits on a raised basement, it was created in a Late Gothic Revival style and features brick piers with terra cotta capitals, a projecting stone two-story bay, and four small towers at each corner.

[2] It was named for Pennsylvania Governor Samuel W. Pennypacker (1843-1916).

[1] Pennypacker feeds into King High School.