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. The Historic District was added to the National Register of Historic Places on December 28, 1978. Selected properties have been recorded by the Historic American Buildings Survey, as indicated in the table below.

In 1978, the Historic District comprised 28 contributing properties over . () One of them, the Lea Laboratory of Hygiene ("Smith Labs"), was demolished in 1995.

Three contributing properties within the Historic District — College Hall, Furness Library, and Richards Medical Research Laboratories — are separately listed on the NRHP. St. Anthony Hall House is adjacent to the Historic District, and was listed on the NRHP in 2005.

Contributing properties NOTES: The properties below are listed alphabetically by the name used in the 1978 NRHP nomination. Separately listed properties are shaded in blue. The No. column indicates numbering within the 1978 NRHP nomination. The online version of the 1978 NRHP nomination is missing a page, leaving Building Nos. 6 and 7 unidentified.

NameNo.ImageArchitectBuiltAddress/LocationNotesHABS No.Bennett Hall(now Fisher–Bennett Hall)17Stewardson & Page 19253340 Walnut Street(SE corner 34th & Walnut Streets)Houses the English Department"The Castle"(Psi Upsilon Fraternity)24William D. Hewitt 1897–1899250 South 36th Street(SW corner 36th Street & Locust Walk)College Hall21Thomas W. Richards1871–1872College Green, south of Locust WalkFrom Woodland Avenue, 1892Delta Tau Delta(now Sweeten Alumni House)Sweeten Alumni House from Penn - Facilities and Real Estate Services.27Bissell & Sinkler19141982 alterations by Dagit/Saylor3533 Locust WalkDelta Upsilon(now Robbins House)Robbins House from Penn - Facilities and Real Estate Services.26Lester Kintzing19133537 Locust WalkLater housed the fraternity Kappa Alpha SocietyNow houses Jerome Fisher Management and Technology CenterDental Hall (now Hayden Hall)14Edgar Viguers Seeler18963320 Smith WalkBecame the Fine Arts Building in 1915Franklin Field9Day & BrotherCharles KlauderHorace Trumbauer19041922, wooden grandstands demolished; concrete grandstands added by Klauder1925, upper deck added by Trumbauer233 South 33rd Street(NE corner 33rd & South Streets)Concrete grandstands under construction, 1922Furness Library ()(now Fisher Fine Arts Library)18Furness and Evans 1888–18911903–1905, Lea Library addition by Furness & Evans1914–1915 Duhring Wing addition by Furness, Evans & Co.1931 H. H. Furness Reading Room addition by Robert Rodes McGoodwin1964 alterations to Duhring Wing by Suer, Livingston & Demas1986–1991 restoration by Venturi, Rauch, Scott Brown & Associates, CLIO Group, and Marianna Thomas Architects220 South 34th Street(34th Street & Locust Walk)The Henry Charles Lea Library and Reading Room addition (1905) expanded the library eastward:The Duhring Wing (1915) expanded the library's bookstacks southward. It was converted into office space in 1964.Duhring Wing from Penn - Facilities and Real Estate Services.The Horace Howard Furness Reading Room addition (1931) expanded the library westward, and housed his Shakespeare collection until 1963. It was converted into the Arthur Ross Gallery in 1983.The 1986–1991 restoration removed interior partitions, and restored the full 4-story height of the Main Reading Room.Houston Hall20William C. Hays and Milton Bennett Medary(under Frank Miles Day)18951936 expansion by Robert Rodes McGoodwin3501 Spruce StreetThe 1936 expansion added a 2-story dining hall to the east end, and a student lounge and clubrooms to the west end.Hutchinson Gymnasium and Palestra11Day & KlauderCharles Klauder1926, Palestra1928, Hutchinson GymnasiumPalestra: 233 South 33rd StreetHutchinson Gymnasium: 219 South 33rd StreetIrvine Auditorium19Horace Trumbauer1926–19323401 Spruce Street(NW corner 34th & Spruce Streets)Lea Laboratory of Hygiene("Smith Labs")DEMOLISHED15Collins & Autenreith1891Demolished 1995215–225 South 34th StreetIdentified in 1978 NRHP nomination as "John Harrison (Smith) Chemistry Lab"Vagelos Laboratories was built on the site in 1997.Vagelos Laboratories from Penn - Facilities and Real Estate Services.Logan Hall(originally Medical Hall,now Claudia Cohen Hall)22Thomas W. Richards1874249 South 36th Street(36th Street between Spruce Street & Woodland Walk)Logan Hall in 1890Medical School(now Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania) 5Cope & StewardsonStewardson & Page190419283620 Hamilton WalkJohn Morgan BuildingMoore School of Electrical Engineering12Morris & Erskine19211926 renovation by Paul Cret1940, 3rd story added by Alfred Bendiner200 South 33rd Street(SW corner 33rd & Walnut Streets)Morgan Laboratory of Physics 2 adjacent buildings:Morgan BuildingMorgan Building from Penn - Facilities and Real Estate Services.Music Building (now Lerner Center)Lerner Center from Penn - Facilities and Real Estate Services.16Cope & Stewardson1890–1892Morgan Building: 209 South 34th StreetMusic Building: 201 South 34th StreetBuilt as the Foulke & Long Institute for Orphan Girls of Soldiers and Firemen. Its school became the Morgan Building; its dormitory became the Music Building.The Morgan Building later housed the School of Nursing.The Music Building was renovated and expanded into the Lerner Center, 2010.Phi Delta Theta(now Jaffe History of Art Building)28Oswin W. Shelly19001924 alterations1994 expansion by Tony Atkins3405 Woodland Walk(SW corner 34th & Walnut Streets)Later housed the Institute for Environmental StudiesNow houses the History of Art DepartmentPhi Kappa Sigma25Bissell & Sinkler, and Marmaduke Tilden19103539 Locust Walk(NE corner 36th Street & Locust Walk)Quadrangle Dormitories3Cope & StewardsonStewardson & PageTrautwein & Howard1895–19121912–19291945–19593700 Spruce Street(bounded by 36th Street, Spruce Street, Woodland Walk, 38th Street, & Hamilton Walk)Upper QuadLower QuadRichards Medical Research Laboratories4Louis Kahn19623700–3710 Hamilton WalkEntrance porchTowne Building13Cope & Stewardson1903220 South 33rd Street(NW corner 33rd Street & Smith Walk)University Museum8Wilson Eyre, Cope & Stewardson, and Frank Miles Day1895-18991912 addition by Wilson Eyre1929 addition by1971 wing by Mitchell/GiurgolaUniversity Museum Academic Wing from Penn - Facilities and Real Estate Services.2020 renovation by3260 South Street(SE corner 33rd & South Streets)The Museum commission was shared by three architectural firms.Veterinary School and HospitalVeterinary Medicine Old Quadrangle from Penn - Facilities and Real Estate Services.1Cope & StewardsonCope & Emlyn Stewardson19061912 expansion3801 Woodland Walk(NW corner 38th Street & Woodland Walk)Following John Stewardson's death, Walter Cope partnered with Stewardson's brother, Emlyn. The firm later became Stewardson & Page.Weightman Hall(Gymnasium and Field House) 10Frank Miles Day19041905 White Training House added by Horace Trumbauer235 South 33rd Street(33rd Street between Spruce Street & Smith Walk)Wistar Institute23G. W. & W. D. Hewitt18941897 addition by Hewitt Bros.3601 Spruce Street(NW corner 36th & Spruce Streets)Zoological Laboratory(now Leidy Laboratories of Biology)Leidy Laboratories of Biology from Penn - Facilities and Real Estate Services. 2Cope & Stewardson19103740 Hamilton Walk(SE corner 38th Street & Hamilton Walk)Unidentified6Unidentified7

Adjacent to the Historic District NameImageArchitectBuiltAddress/LocationNotesSt. Anthony Hall House(Delta Psi Fraternity)Cope & Stewardson19073631–3637 Locust WalkAdded to NRHP in 2005 ()

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