Only surviving first-hand rendering, by DuSimitiere, of College Hall and the 'New Building', Penn's first campus at 4th and Arch Streets in PhiladelphiaPrint of President's House on Ninth Street converted for use as the University of Pennsylvania campus. Includes the rotunda added to the Medical School addition in 1817. Demolished 1829 for construction of twin buildings designed by William StricklandPrint of twin buildings designed by William Strickland for Penn's Ninth Street campus. Medical Hall is on the left, and College Hall on the right. Erected 1829. Print dates from 1842Photograph of College Hall, with its twin towers still intact, on Penn's West Philadelphia campus. Erected 1871. Photograph dates from early 1890s

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