University of Pennsylvania Campus Historic District

University of Pennsylvania Campus Historic District
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. Historic district
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Location	Roughly bounded by Hamilton Walk, South, 32nd, Walnut, 36th, Spruce, and 39th Streets, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Coordinates	39°56′57″N 75°11′40″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 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.

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.
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

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

• Philadelphia portal

References

1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
2. 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.

External links

• 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