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University of Pennsylvania Campus Historic District

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Architect
  
Multiple

Area
  
47 ha

NRHP Reference #
  
78002457

Added to NRHP
  
28 December 1978

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Location
  
Roughly bounded by Hamilton Walk, South, 32nd, Walnut, 36th, Spruce, and 39th Sts., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Architectural style
  
Late Gothic Revival, Tudor Revival, Romanesque

The University of Pennsylvania Campus Historic District is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as a historic district on the campus of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, eastern USA. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.

Contributing properties

The Historic District comprises 28 contributing properties over 117 acres (0.47 km2), including:

  • College Hall, Thomas W. Richards, 1871-1872
  • Logan Hall, Thomas W. Richards, 1874
  • John Harrison (Smith) Chemistry Lab, Collins and Autenreith, 1886
  • Furness Library, Furness and Evans, 1888-1891; Duhring Wing, 1914-1915
  • Morgan Laboratory of Physics (School of Nursing and Music Building), Cope and Stewardson, 1892
  • Wistar Institute, G. W. & W. D. Hewitt 1894; addition, 1897
  • Quadrangle Dormitories, Cope and Stewardson, 1895-1910
  • Houston Hall, William C. Hays and Milton Bennett Medary (under Frank Miles Day), 1895
  • University Museum, original design by Wilson Eyre, Cope and Stewardson, and Frank Miles Day, 1895-1899. Additions in 1912 and 1929; new wing designed by Mitchell and Giurgola, 1971
  • Dental Hall (in 1915 Fine Arts Building, present-day Hayden Hall), Edgar Viguers Seeler, 1896
  • "The Castle" (Tau chapter of Psi Upsilon Fraternity), William D. Hewitt, 1897–99
  • Phi Delta Theta (present-day Environmental Studies), Oswald Shelly, 1900
  • Towne Building, Cope and Stewardson, 1903
  • Franklin Field, Day & Klauder, 1904; Horace Trumbauer, 1925
  • Medical School, Cope and Stewardson, 1904, 1928
  • Weightman Hall, Frank Miles Day, 1904
  • Veterinary School and Hospital, designed by Walter Cope and Emlyn Stewardson, 1906, 1912
  • Phi Kappa Sigma fraternity, Bissell and Sinkler, 1910
  • Zoological Laboratory (present-day Leidy Laboratory of Biology), Cope and Stewardson, 1910
  • Delta Upsilon, L. Kintzing, 1913
  • Delta Tau Delta, Bissell and Sinkler, 1914
  • Moore School of Electrical Engineering, Erskine and Morris, 1921; renovated by Paul Cret 1926; third story added by Alfred Bendiner in 1940
  • Bennett Hall, Stewardson and Page, 1925
  • Hutchinson Gym and Palestra, Frank Miles Day and Charles Klauder, 1926, 1928
  • Irvine Auditorium, Horace Trumbauer, 1926-1932
  • Richards Medical Research Laboratories, Louis Kahn, 1962

    • References

    University of Pennsylvania Campus Historic District Wikipedia
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