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Near and east of Bryn Mawr; also roughly bounded by the Schuylkill River, Mill Creek, and Righter's Mill, Rose Glen, and Monk's Roads 40°01′32″N 75°17′08″W / 40.025556°N 75.285556°W / 40.025556; -75.285556 ( Mill Creek Historic
The Old Library is a college library at Bryn Mawr College in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania. Previously named the M. Carey Thomas Library after Bryn Mawr's first dean and second president, it was formally renamed in 2018 as a result of controversy surrounding Thomas's history of racism and anti-Semitism. [3]
Bryn Mawr is named after an estate near Dolgellau in Wales that belonged to Rowland Ellis, a Welsh Quaker who emigrated in 1686 to Pennsylvania to escape religious persecution. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Until the construction of the Pennsylvania Railroad 's Main Line in 1869, the town, located in the old Welsh Tract , was known as Humphreysville, named for ...
The Lower Merion Library System (LMLS) is the public library system of the township of Lower Merion, in Pennsylvania. It is among the largest public library systems in Pennsylvania. [ 1 ] While Lower Merion accounts for 7% of the population of Montgomery County , it represents 20% of its library circulation.
The Alfred C. Harrison Building in Philadelphia, built between 1894 and 1895 and demolished in 1969 Cope and Stewardson's offices, circa 1899. Although Walter Cope and John Stewardson were major exponents of the Collegiate Gothic style which swept campuses across the country in the latter part of the nineteenth century, they were equally adept at other styles.
The Mill Creek Historic District near Bryn Mawr and Gladwyne, Pennsylvania, United States, is a historic district that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on December 10, 1980. [1] The area of the historic district was increased on August 30, 1996.
Harriton House, originally known as Bryn Mawr, is an historic house which is located on the Philadelphia Main Line, and was most famously the residence of Founding Father Charles Thomson, the secretary of the Continental Congress. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1973. [1]
Bryn Mawr College (/ ˌ b r ɪ n ˈ m ɑː r / brin-MAR; Welsh: [ˌbɾɨ̞nˈmau̯ɾ]) [8] is a private women's liberal arts college in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, United States.Founded as a Quaker institution in 1885, Bryn Mawr is one of the Seven Sister colleges, a group of historically women's colleges in the United States.