The Thomas Buchanan Read School is an historic, American school building that is located in the Elmwood Park neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

[1] Designed by Henry deCoursey Richards and built between 1906 and 1908, this historic structure is a two-story, twenty-bay, red brick building with limestone trim.

Created in the Georgian Revival style, it features a large projecting section, recessed entrance bays, brick piers with stone capitals, and a hipped roof with copper cupola.

[2] It was named in honor of the poet and painter Thomas Buchanan Read.

[3] Added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1986,[1] it was home to the Motivation High School before the latter moved to its current location on Baltimore Avenue in 2013.