Charles Schaeffer School
Charles Schaeffer School, most recently the Seventh Day Adventist Church, is a historic former school building located in the Germantown neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The school was built in 1876 by the School District of Philadelphia, and is a 3 1/2-story, schist building in the Gothic-style. It features brownstone trim, a pedimented gable roofline, molded cornice with decorative brackets, and a three-story projecting front section added in 1914. It was called the C. W. Schaeffer Combined Secondary and Primary School.
The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.
In July 2011, Weinstein Properties purchased the school building from the Mitzpah Seventh Day Adventist Church. Mitzpah had owned both the school and the adjacent Wakefield Presbyterian Church, but abandoned them to move into a larger historic church, the former Frankford Baptist Church at 4357 Paul Street.
