University of Pennsylvania Campus Historic District
University of Pennsylvania Campus Historic District | |
Location | Roughly bounded by Hamilton Walk, South, 32nd, Walnut, 36th, Spruce, and 39th Streets, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
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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 |
The University of Pennsylvania Campus Historic District is a
Historic American Buildings Survey
, as indicated in the table below.
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
NOTES:
- 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 | Stewardson & Page | 1925 | 3340 Walnut Street (SE corner 34th & Walnut Streets) |
Houses the English Department | ||
"The Castle" (Psi Upsilon Fraternity) |
24 | William D. Hewitt | 1897–1899 | 250 South 36th Street (SW corner 36th Street & Locust Walk) |
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College Hall | 21 | 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 | Edgar Viguers Seeler | 1896 | 3320 Smith Walk | Became the Fine Arts Building in 1915 | PA-6176 | |
Franklin Field | 9 | 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 | Furness and Evans
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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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | Cope & Stewardson Stewardson & Page |
1904 1928 |
3620 Hamilton Walk | John Morgan Building |
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Moore School of Electrical Engineering | 12 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | Louis Kahn | 1962 | 3700–3710 Hamilton Walk | Entrance porch |
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Towne Building | 13 | Cope & Stewardson | 1903 | 220 South 33rd Street (NW corner 33rd Street & Smith Walk) |
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University Museum
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8 | 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) |
The Museum commission was shared by three architectural firms. |
PA-1646 | |
Veterinary School and Hospital[15] | 1 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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
Name | Image | Architect | Built | Address/Location | Notes |
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St. Anthony Hall House (formerly Delta Psi Fraternity) |
Cope & Stewardson | 1907 | 3631–3637 Locust Walk | Added to NRHP in 2005[17] |
See also
References
- ^ "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.
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(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
- Media related to Buildings in the University of Pennsylvania at Wikimedia Commons
- 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