The University of Pennsylvania Campus Historic District is a historic district on the campus of the University of Pennsylvania, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. The university relocated from Center City to West Philadelphia in the 1870s, and its oldest buildings date from that period. The Historic District was added to the National Register of Historic Places on December 28, 1978. Selected properties have been recorded by the Historic American Buildings Survey, as indicated in the table below.
University of Pennsylvania Campus Historic District | |
 A 1915 map of the University of Pennsylvania campus | |
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| Location | Roughly bounded by Hamilton Walk, South, 32nd, Walnut, 36th, Spruce, and 39th Streets, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
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| Coordinates | 39°56′57″N 75°11′40″W / 39.94917°N 75.19444°W |
| Area | 117 acres (47 ha) |
| Architect | Multiple |
| Architectural style | Late Gothic Revival, Tudor Revival, Romanesque |
| NRHP reference No. | 78002457[1] |
| Added to NRHP | December 28, 1978 |
In 1978, the Historic District comprised 28 contributing properties over 117 acres (0.47 km2).[2] One of them, the Lea Laboratory of Hygiene ("Smith Labs"), was demolished in 1995.
Three contributing properties within the Historic District — College Hall, Furness Library, and Richards Medical Research Laboratories — are separately listed on the NRHP. St. Anthony Hall House is adjacent to the Historic District, and was listed on the NRHP in 2005.
Contributing properties
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- The properties below are listed alphabetically by the name used in the 1978 NRHP nomination. Separately listed properties are shaded in blue.
- The No. column indicates numbering within the 1978 NRHP nomination.
- The online version of the 1978 NRHP nomination is missing a page, leaving Building Nos. 6 and 7 unidentified.[2]
| Name | No. | Image | Architect | Built | Address/Location | Notes | HABS No. |
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| Bennett Hall (now Fisher–Bennett Hall) |
17 | 
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Stewardson & Page | 1925 | 3340 Walnut Street (SE corner 34th & Walnut Streets) |
Houses the English Department | |
| "The Castle" (Psi Upsilon Fraternity) |
24 | 
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William D. Hewitt | 1897–1899 | 250 South 36th Street (SW corner 36th Street & Locust Walk) |
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| College Hall | 21 | 
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Thomas W. Richards | 1871–1872 | College Green, south of Locust Walk |  From Woodland Avenue, 1892 |
PA-1643 |
| Delta Tau Delta (now Sweeten Alumni House)[3] |
27 | Bissell & Sinkler | 1914 1982 alterations by Dagit/Saylor |
3533 Locust Walk | |||
| Delta Upsilon (now Robbins House)[4] |
26 | Lester Kintzing | 1913 | 3537 Locust Walk | Later housed Kappa Alpha Fraternity[5] Now houses Jerome Fisher Management and Technology Center |
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| Dental Hall (now Hayden Hall) | 14 | 
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Edgar Viguers Seeler | 1896 | 3320 Smith Walk | Became the Fine Arts Building in 1915 | PA-6176 |
| Franklin Field | 9 | 
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Day & Brother Charles Klauder Horace Trumbauer |
1904 1922, wooden grandstands demolished; concrete grandstands added by Klauder 1925, upper deck added by Trumbauer |
233 South 33rd Street (NE corner 33rd & South Streets) |
 Concrete grandstands under construction, 1922 |
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| Furness Library[6] (now Fisher Fine Arts Library) |
18 |   _UPenn.JPG) 
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Furness and Evans | 1888–1891 1903–1905, Lea Library addition by Furness & Evans 1914–1915 Duhring Wing addition by Furness, Evans & Co. 1931 H. H. Furness Reading Room addition by Robert Rodes McGoodwin 1964 alterations to Duhring Wing by Suer, Livingston & Demas 1986–1991 restoration by Venturi, Rauch, Scott Brown & Associates, CLIO Group, and Marianna Thomas Architects |
220 South 34th Street (34th Street & Locust Walk) |
The Henry Charles Lea Library and Reading Room addition (1905) expanded the library eastward: The Duhring Wing (1915) expanded the library's bookstacks southward. It was converted into office space in 1964.[7] The Horace Howard Furness Reading Room addition (1931) expanded the library westward, and housed his Shakespeare collection until 1963.[8]: 166 It was converted into the Arthur Ross Gallery in 1983. The 1986–1991 restoration removed interior partitions, and restored the full 4-story height of the Main Reading Room.[9] |
PA-1644 |
| Houston Hall | 20 | _(14578293487).jpg)
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William C. Hays and Milton Bennett Medary (under Frank Miles Day) |
1895 1936 expansion by Robert Rodes McGoodwin |
3501 Spruce Street | The 1936 expansion added a 2-story dining hall to the east end, and a student lounge and clubrooms to the west end. | |
| Hutchinson Gymnasium and Palestra | 11 | 
|
Day & Klauder Charles Klauder |
1926, Palestra 1928, Hutchinson Gymnasium |
Palestra: 233 South 33rd Street Hutchinson Gymnasium: 219 South 33rd Street |
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| Irvine Auditorium | 19 | 
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Horace Trumbauer | 1926–1932 | 3401 Spruce Street (NW corner 34th & Spruce Streets) |
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| Lea Laboratory of Hygiene[10] ("Smith Labs") DEMOLISHED |
15 | 
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Collins & Autenreith | 1891 Demolished 1995 |
215–225 South 34th Street | Identified in 1978 NRHP nomination as "John Harrison (Smith) Chemistry Lab"[2] Vagelos Laboratories was built on the site in 1997.[11] |
PA-6175 |
| Logan Hall (originally Medical Hall, now Claudia Cohen Hall) |
22 | 
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Thomas W. Richards | 1874 | 249 South 36th Street (36th Street between Spruce Street & Woodland Walk) |
 Logan Hall in 1890 |
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| Medical School (now Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania) |
5 | 
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Cope & Stewardson Stewardson & Page |
1904 1928 |
3620 Hamilton Walk |  John Morgan Building |
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| Moore School of Electrical Engineering | 12 | 
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Morris & Erskine | 1921 1926 renovation by Paul Cret 1940, 3rd story added by Alfred Bendiner |
200 South 33rd Street (SW corner 33rd & Walnut Streets) |
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| Morgan Laboratory of Physics 2 adjacent buildings: Morgan Building[12] Music Building (now Lerner Center)[13] |
16 |  
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Cope & Stewardson | 1890–1892 | Morgan Building: 209 South 34th Street Music Building: 201 South 34th Street |
Built as the Foulke & Long Institute for Orphan Girls of Soldiers and Firemen. Its school became the Morgan Building; its dormitory became the Music Building. The Morgan Building later housed the School of Nursing. The Music Building was renovated and expanded into the Lerner Center, 2010. |
PA-6177 PA-6177-A PA-6177-B |
| Phi Delta Theta (now Jaffe History of Art Building) |
28 | 
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Oswin W. Shelly | 1900 1924 alterations 1994 expansion by Tony Atkins |
3405 Woodland Walk (SW corner 34th & Walnut Streets) |
Later housed the Institute for Environmental Studies Now houses the History of Art Department |
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| Phi Kappa Sigma | 25 | Bissell & Sinkler, and Marmaduke Tilden | 1910 | 3539 Locust Walk (NE corner 36th Street & Locust Walk) |
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| Quadrangle Dormitories | 3 | 
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Cope & Stewardson Stewardson & Page Trautwein & Howard |
1895–1912 1912–1929 1945–1959 |
3700 Spruce Street (bounded by 36th Street, Spruce Street, Woodland Walk, 38th Street, & Hamilton Walk) |
 Upper Quad  Lower Quad |
PA-1645 |
| Richards Medical Research Laboratories | 4 | 
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Louis Kahn | 1962 | 3700–3710 Hamilton Walk |  Entrance porch |
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| Towne Building | 13 | 
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Cope & Stewardson | 1903 | 220 South 33rd Street (NW corner 33rd Street & Smith Walk) |
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| University Museum | 8 | 
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Wilson Eyre, Cope & Stewardson, and Frank Miles Day | 1895-1899 1912 addition by Wilson Eyre 1929 addition by 1971 wing by Mitchell/Giurgola[14] 2020 renovation by |
3260 South Street (SE corner 33rd & South Streets) |
_(14764430332).jpg) The Museum commission was shared by three architectural firms. |
PA-1646 |
| Veterinary School and Hospital[15] | 1 | _(14764791665).jpg)
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Cope & Stewardson Cope & Emlyn Stewardson |
1906 1912 expansion |
3801 Woodland Walk (NW corner 38th Street & Woodland Walk) |
Following John Stewardson's death, Walter Cope partnered with Stewardson's brother, Emlyn. The firm later became Stewardson & Page. | |
| Weightman Hall (Gymnasium and Field House) |
10 | 
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Frank Miles Day | 1904 1905 White Training House added by Horace Trumbauer |
235 South 33rd Street (33rd Street between Spruce Street & Smith Walk) |
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| Wistar Institute | 23 | 
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G. W. & W. D. Hewitt | 1894 1897 addition by Hewitt Bros. |
3601 Spruce Street (NW corner 36th & Spruce Streets) |
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| Zoological Laboratory (now Leidy Laboratories of Biology)[16] |
2 | 
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Cope & Stewardson | 1910 | 3740 Hamilton Walk (SE corner 38th Street & Hamilton Walk) |
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| Unidentified | 6 | ||||||
| Unidentified | 7 |
Adjacent to the Historic District
edit| Name | Image | Architect | Built | Address/Location | Notes |
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| St. Anthony Hall House (formerly Delta Psi Fraternity) |
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Cope & Stewardson | 1907 | 3631–3637 Locust Walk | Added to NRHP in 2005[17] |
See also
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References
edit- ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
- ^ a b c Cohen, Madeline L. (1977). "University of Pennsylvania Campus Historic District" (PDF). National Register of Historic Places Inventory and Nomination. Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission. Retrieved December 31, 2013.
- ^ Sweeten Alumni House from Penn - Facilities and Real Estate Services.
- ^ Robbins House from Penn - Facilities and Real Estate Services.
- ^ Kappa Alpha Fraternity data from the Philadelphia Architects and Buildings (PAB) project of the Athenaeum of Philadelphia
- ^ Pitts, Carolyn (August 10, 1984). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory-Nomination: Furness Library, School of the Fine Arts, University of Pennsylvania" (PDF). National Park Service.
{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires|journal=(help) and Accompanying four photos from 1964 (32 KB) - ^ Duhring Wing from Penn - Facilities and Real Estate Services.
- ^ Thomas, George E.; Brownlee, David B. (2000). Building America's First University: An Historical and Architectural Guide to the University of Pennsylvania. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.
- ^ Lewis, Michael J. (November 14, 2009). "This Library Speaks Volumes". The Wall Street Journal.
- ^ Lea Laboratory of Hygiene data from the Philadelphia Architects and Buildings (PAB) project of the Athenaeum of Philadelphia
- ^ Vagelos Laboratories from Penn - Facilities and Real Estate Services.
- ^ Morgan Building from Penn - Facilities and Real Estate Services.
- ^ Lerner Center from Penn - Facilities and Real Estate Services.
- ^ University Museum Academic Wing from Penn - Facilities and Real Estate Services.
- ^ Veterinary Medicine Old Quadrangle from Penn - Facilities and Real Estate Services.
- ^ Leidy Laboratories of Biology from Penn - Facilities and Real Estate Services.
- ^ "National Historic Landmarks & National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania" (Searchable database). CRGIS: Cultural Resources Geographic Information System. Note: This includes Cannon, Susan S. Koenig (May 2003). "National Register of Historic Places Registration Form: St. Anthony Hall House" (PDF). Retrieved July 3, 2012.
External links
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Buildings in the University of Pennsylvania.
- Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) No. PA-6179, "University of Pennsylvania, Smith Walk, Bounded by Walnut, Thirty-third, Thirty-fourth and Spruce Streets, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA", 9 photos, 16 data pages, 2 photo caption pages