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Photograph, c. 1891, of Penn campus, looking west from 33rd and Spruce Streets. Buildings, left to right: Hospital Building, Dining Hall with Hare Laboratory beyond, Logan Hall behind College Hall, Furness Library

Penn in the 19th Century
West Philadelphia Campus: First Decades of Construction, 1872-1900

 

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Expanding student enrollment and changing curriculum led to the 1872 move of the University to West Philadelphia. Architect Thomas Webb Richards designed the first buildings on this campus: College Hall, Medical Hall (Logan), the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and Hare Medical Laboratories. By 1900 the campus would include athletic fields and close to 30 buildings, including dormitories, a museum, a power plant and laundry, more hospitals and laboratories, and buildings for the new Veterinary, Dental and Engineering Departments.

Most were significant structures designed by architects such as George W. and W.D. Hewitt, Furness & Evans, Cope & Stewardson, Collins & Autenreith, Addison Hutton, the Wilson Brothers, Frank Miles Day, Wilson Eyre, and Edgar V. Seeler. A few, such as a dining hall and Eadweard Muybridge's photography studio, were meant to be temporary. Some buildings still stand, but others, even those of architectural significance, have since been replaced by more modern construction.

 

 

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