The Birmingham Public School is an historic American school building that is located in the South Side Flats neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986, it currently functions as an apartment building.

Birmingham Public School

History and architectural features

This historic structure was built in 1871 by the Borough of Birmingham in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, a community that was annexed by the city of Pittsburgh the following year.

Birmingham Public School

A three-story, brick building that features gabled eastern and western sections that are connected by hipped-roof middle section, its "twin facades have slightly projecting center bays with segmentally arched entries with stone surrounds and overhanging hoods."

Birmingham Public School

In 1944, this building was sold to the Catholic Church and served as the middle school for St. Adalbert's Parish.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986. It is currently an apartment building.

References

School buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania

Italianate architecture in Pennsylvania

School buildings completed in 1871

Schools in Pittsburgh

National Register of Historic Places in Pittsburgh

1871 establishments in Pennsylvania