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 Sts., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Coordinates	39°56′57″N 75°11′40″W / 39.94917°N 75.19444°W / 39.94917; -75.19444Coordinates: 39°56′57″N 75°11′40″W / 39.94917°N 75.19444°W / 39.94917; -75.19444
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, 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.

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]		Bissell & Sinkler	1914 1982 alterations by Dagit/Saylor	3533 Locust Walk	Building #27 in NRHP Nomination
Delta Upsilon (now Robbins House)[4]		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		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]

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