The Concord School House

Philadelphia, United States of America

The Concord School House is a historic one-room schoolhouse in the Germantown section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It is operated today as a museum. It is part of the Colonial Germantown Historic District which was named a National Historic Landmark District in 1965. Built in 1775 by Jacob Knorr (

or Knor), Concord was the first English-language school in Germantown, which was then a separate town about six miles northwest of Philadelphia. It is built on the corner of the Upper Burial Ground at Washington Lane and Germantown Avenue. It opened to students in October 1775, and served as a school room until at least 1889.

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Nearby

Upper Burial Ground cemetery
Johnson House Historic Site musei · 0.1 km away
Mennonite Meetinghouse chiese · 0.3 km away
Benjamin Chew House musei · 0.4 km away
Ebenezer Maxwell Mansion musei · 0.7 km away
St. Peter's Episcopal Church of Germantown chiese · 1 km away
Walnut Lane Memorial Bridge bridge · 1 km away
Colonial Germantown Historic District beni_culturali · 1 km away