University of Pennsylvania Campus Historic District

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
University of Pennsylvania Campus Historic District is located in Philadelphia
University of Pennsylvania Campus Historic District
University of Pennsylvania Campus Historic District is located in Pennsylvania
University of Pennsylvania Campus Historic District
University of Pennsylvania Campus Historic District is located in the United States
University of Pennsylvania Campus Historic District
LocationRoughly bounded by Hamilton Walk, South, 32nd, Walnut, 36th, Spruce, and 39th Streets, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Coordinates39°56′57″N 75°11′40″W / 39.94917°N 75.19444°W / 39.94917; -75.19444
Area117 acres (47 ha)
ArchitectMultiple
Architectural styleLate Gothic Revival, Tudor Revival, Romanesque
NRHP reference No.78002457[1]
Added to NRHPDecember 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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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.
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)
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
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
Furness Library[6]
(now Fisher Fine Arts Library)
18  

 

 

 
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   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
Irvine Auditorium 19   Horace Trumbauer 1926–1932 3401 Spruce Street
(NW corner 34th & Spruce Streets)
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
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
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)
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
Phi Kappa Sigma 25 Bissell & Sinkler, and Marmaduke Tilden 1910 3539 Locust Walk
(NE corner 36th Street & Locust Walk)
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
Towne Building 13   Cope & Stewardson 1903 220 South 33rd Street
(NW corner 33rd Street & Smith Walk)
University Museum 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)
Wistar Institute 23   G. W. & W. D. Hewitt 1894
1897 addition by Hewitt Bros.
3601 Spruce Street
(NW corner 36th & Spruce Streets)
 
Zoological Laboratory
(now Leidy Laboratories of Biology)[16]
2   Cope & Stewardson 1910 3740 Hamilton Walk
(SE corner 38th Street & Hamilton Walk)
 
Unidentified 6
Unidentified 7

Adjacent to the Historic District

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Name Image Architect Built Address/Location Notes
St. Anthony Hall House
(formerly Delta Psi Fraternity)
  Cope & Stewardson 1907 3631–3637 Locust Walk Added to NRHP in 2005[17]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ^ Sweeten Alumni House from Penn - Facilities and Real Estate Services.
  4. ^ Robbins House from Penn - Facilities and Real Estate Services.
  5. ^ Kappa Alpha Fraternity data from the Philadelphia Architects and Buildings (PAB) project of the Athenaeum of Philadelphia
  6. ^ 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)
  7. ^ Duhring Wing from Penn - Facilities and Real Estate Services.
  8. ^ 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.
  9. ^ Lewis, Michael J. (November 14, 2009). "This Library Speaks Volumes". The Wall Street Journal.
  10. ^ Lea Laboratory of Hygiene data from the Philadelphia Architects and Buildings (PAB) project of the Athenaeum of Philadelphia
  11. ^ Vagelos Laboratories from Penn - Facilities and Real Estate Services.
  12. ^ Morgan Building from Penn - Facilities and Real Estate Services.
  13. ^ Lerner Center from Penn - Facilities and Real Estate Services.
  14. ^ University Museum Academic Wing from Penn - Facilities and Real Estate Services.
  15. ^ Veterinary Medicine Old Quadrangle from Penn - Facilities and Real Estate Services.
  16. ^ Leidy Laboratories of Biology from Penn - Facilities and Real Estate Services.
  17. ^ "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.
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