History and architectural features
The building was designed by Irwin T. Catharine and built between 1923 and 1924. It is a three-story, nine-bay, brick structure which sits on a raised basement. It was designed in the Colonial Revival style, and features a central projecting entrance pavilion, stone arched surrounds, and stone cornice and brick parapet.[2]
The school is named after Hamilton Disston, an industrialist who led the Disston Saw Works, and whose father, Henry Disston, had founded the saw works and had built Tacony as a company town for its workers.
