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The University of Pennsylvania Campus Historic District is a historic district on the campus of the University of Pennsylvania, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. The university relocated from Center City to West Philadelphia in the 1870s, and its oldest buildings date from that period.
A c. 1815 illustration of the Ninth Street campus of the University of Pennsylvania, including the medical department (on left) and the college building (on right). In 1802, the university moved to the unused Presidential Mansion at Ninth and Market Streets, a building that both George Washington and John Adams had declined to occupy while Philadelphia was the nation's capital.
The University of Pennsylvania (Penn [note 3] or UPenn [note 4]) is a private Ivy League research university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.It is one of nine colonial colleges and was chartered prior to the U.S. Declaration of Independence when Benjamin Franklin, the university's founder and first president, advocated for an educational institution that trained leaders in ...
The Penn Medical Emergency Response Team (MERT) is the University of Pennsylvania's student-run volunteer emergency medical services organization, providing care to students, faculty, staff and community members.
The plaza, which contains seating areas and a small amphitheater, was known as Wynn Commons from its renovation in 2001 until February 2018, when the University removed Steve Wynn's name amid multiple allegations of sexual misconduct. [2] Houston Hall (1895) is Penn's student union building, and by some definitions the first in the United States.
Memorial Tower (1901), at 37th & Spruce Streets. The Upper Quad, looking west. The Quadrangle was the first major dormitory built by the university. [4] Prior to its construction, the undergraduate components of the College (25 to 50 percent of student body) was populated by many commuters from Philadelphia-area residents; students from elsewhere lived in fraternities, Philadelphia relatives ...
University of Pennsylvania: 7: The Reverend John Andrews: 1746–1813: 1810–1813: University of Pennsylvania: 8: The Reverend Frederick Beasley: 1777–1845: 1813–1828: University of Pennsylvania: 9: The Right Reverend William Heathcote DeLancey: 1797–1865: 1828–1834: University of Pennsylvania: 10: The Reverend John Ludlow: 1793–1857 ...
The building currently houses the undergraduate admissions office, the university president's offices, the Department of History, and classrooms. [4] The top floor of College Hall was purpose built for the Zelosophic and Philomathean Societies, and is presently home to the Philomathean Society , a literary society founded in 1813.