Buildings:
History of title: | Introduction: 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of architectural significance, have since been replaced by more modern construction. |
