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, USA. 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.

University of Pennsylvania Campus Historic District
1915 Campus Map
LocationRoughly bounded by Hamilton Walk, South, 32nd, Walnut, 36th, Spruce, and 39th Sts., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Coordinates39°56′57″N 75°11′40″W
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

NOTES:

  • The properties below are listed alphabetically by the name used in the 1978 NRHP Nomination. Separately-listed properties are shaded in blue.
  • The online version of the 1978 NRHP Nomination is missing a page, leaving Buildings #6 and #7 unidentified.[2]
Name Image Architect Built Address/Location Notes
Bennett Hall
(now Fisher-Bennett Hall)		 Stewardson & Page 1925 3340 Walnut St.
SE corner, 34th & Walnut Sts.		 Building #17 in NRHP Nomination

Houses the English Dept.
"The Castle"
(formerly Psi Upsilon)		 William D. Hewitt 1897–1899 250 S. 36th St.
SW corner 36th St. & Locust Walk		 Building #24 in NRHP Nomination
College Hall Thomas W. Richards 1871-1872 College Green, south of Locust Walk
Building #21 in NRHP Nomination

From Woodland Avenue, 1892:
Delta Tau Delta
(now Sweeten Alumni House)[3]		 100px Bissell & Sinkler 1914
1982 alterations by Dagit/Saylor		 3533 Locust Walk Building #27 in NRHP Nomination
Delta Upsilon
(now Robbins House)[4]		 100px Lester Kintzing 1913 3537 Locust Walk Building #26 in NRHP Nomination

Later housed Kappa Alpha Fraternity[5]
Now houses Jerome Fisher Management and Technology Center
Dental Hall (now Hayden Hall) Edgar Viguers Seeler 1896 3320 Smith Walk Building #14 in NRHP Nomination

Became the Fine Arts Building in 1915
Franklin Field Day & Brother
Charles Klauder
Horace Trumbauer		 1904
1922, wooden grandstands demolished; concrete grandstands added by Klauder
1925, upper deck added by Trumbauer		 233 S. 33rd St.
NE corner 33rd & South Sts.
Building #9 in NRHP Nomination

Concrete grandstands under construction, 1922:
Furness Library[6]
(now Fisher Fine Arts Library)





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 S. 34th St.
34th St. & Locust Walk		 Building #18 in NRHP Nomination

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]
Houston Hall William C. Hays and Milton Bennett Medary
(under Frank Miles Day)		 1895
1936 expansion by Robert Rodes McGoodwin		 3501 Spruce St. Building #20 in NRHP Nomination

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 & Palestra Day & Klauder
Charles Klauder		 1926, Palestra
1928, Hutchinson Gymnasium		 Palestra: 233 S. 33rd St.
Hutchinson: 219 S. 33rd St.		 Building #11 in NRHP Nomination
Irvine Auditorium Horace Trumbauer 1926-1932 3401 Spruce St.
NW corner 34th & Spruce Sts.		 Building #19 in NRHP Nomination
Lea Laboratory of Hygiene[10]
("Smith Labs")
DEMOLISHED		 Collins & Autenreith 1891
Demolished 1995		 215-225 S. 34th St. Building #15 in NRHP Nomination

Identified in 1978 NRHP nomination as "John Harrison (Smith) Chemistry Lab"[2]
Vagelos Laboratories was built on the site in 1997.[11]
Logan Hall
(originally Medical Hall,
now Claudia Cohen Hall)		 Thomas W. Richards 1874 249 S. 36th St.
36th St., between Spruce St. & Woodland Walk
Building #22 in NRHP Nomination

Logan Hall in 1890:
Medical School
(now Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania)		 Cope & Stewardson
Stewardson & Page		 1904
1928		 3620 Hamilton Walk
Building #5 in NRHP Nomination

John Morgan Building:
Moore School of Electrical Engineering Morris & Erskine 1921
1926 renovation by Paul Cret
1940, 3rd story added by Alfred Bendiner		 200 S. 33rd St.
SW corner 33rd & Walnut Sts.		 Building #12 in NRHP Nomination
Morgan Laboratory of Physics

2 adjacent buildings:
Morgan Building[12]
Music Building (now Lerner Center)[13]

Cope & Stewardson 1890-1892 Morgan Building: 209 S. 34th St.
Music Building: 201 S. 34th St.		 Building #16 in NRHP Nomination

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.
Phi Delta Theta
(now Jaffe History of Art Building)		 Oswin W. Shelly 1900
1924 alterations
1994 expansion by Tony Atkins		 3405 Woodland Walk
SW corner 34th & Walnut Sts.		 Building #28 in NRHP Nomination

Later housed the Institute for Environmental Studies
Now houses the History of Art Dept.
Phi Kappa Sigma 100px Bissell & Sinkler, and Marmaduke Tilden 1910 3539 Locust Walk
NE corner 36th St. & Locust Walk		 Building #25 in NRHP Nomination
Quadrangle Dormitories Cope & Stewardson
Stewardson & Page
Trautwein & Howard		 1895-1912
1912-1929
1945-1959		 3700 Spruce St.
Bordered by 36th St., Spruce St., Woodland Walk, 38th St. & Hamilton Walk
Building #3 in NRHP Nomination

Upper Quad:


Lower Quad:
Richards Medical Research Laboratories Louis Kahn 1962 3700-3710 Hamilton Walk
Building #4 in NRHP Nomination

Entrance porch:
Towne Building Cope & Stewardson 1903 220 S. 33rd St.
NW corner 33rd St. & Smith Walk		 Building #13 in NRHP Nomination
University Museum 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 St.
SE corner 33rd & South Sts.
Building #8 in NRHP Nomination

The Museum commission was shared by 3 architectural firms.
Veterinary School and Hospital[15] Cope & Stewardson
Cope & Emlyn Stewardson		 1906
1912 expansion		 3801 Woodland Walk
NW corner 38th St. & Woodland Walk		 Building #1 in NRHP Nomination

Following John Stewardson's death, Walter Cope partnered with Stewardson's brother, Emlyn. The firm later became Stewardson & Page.
Weightman Hall
(Gymnasium & Field House)		 Frank Miles Day 1904
1905 White Training House added by Horace Trumbauer		 235 S. 33rd St.
33rd St. between Spruce St. & Smith Walk		 Building #10 in NRHP Nomination
Wistar Institute G. W. & W. D. Hewitt 1894
1897 addition by Hewitt Bros.		 3601 Spruce St.
NW corner 36th & Spruce Sts.
Building #23 in NRHP Nomination
Zoological Laboratory
(now Leidy Laboratories of Biology)[16]		 Cope & Stewardson 1910 3740 Hamilton Walk
SE corner 38th St. & Hamilton Walk
Building #2 in NRHP Nomination
Unidentified Building #6 in NRHP Nomination
Unidentified Building #7 in NRHP Nomination

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]

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 from Philadelphia Architects and Buildings.
  6. Carolyn Pitts (1984-08-10). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory-Nomination: Furness Library, School of the Fine Arts, University of Pennsylvania" (pdf). National Park Service. Cite journal requires |journal= (help) and Accompanying four photos from 1964 (32 KB)
  7. Duhring Wing from Penn - Facilities and Real Estate Services.
  8. George E. Thomas & David B. Brownlee, Building America's First University: An Historical and Architectural Guide to the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2000).
  9. Michael J. Lewis, "This Library Speaks Volumes," The Wall Street Journal, November 14, 2009.
  10. Lea Laboratory of Hygiene from Philadelphia Architects and Buildings.
  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 Susan S. Koenig Cannon (May 2003). "National Register of Historic Places Registration Form: St. Anthony Hall House" (PDF). Retrieved 2012-07-03.
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