The University of Pennsylvania Campus Historic District is a
historic district
A historic district or heritage district is a section of a city which contains older buildings considered valuable for historical or architectural reasons. In some countries or jurisdictions, historic districts receive legal protection from cer ...
on the campus of the
University of Pennsylvania
The University of Pennsylvania (also known as Penn or UPenn) is a Private university, private research university in Philadelphia. It is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and is ranked among the highest- ...
, in
Philadelphia
Philadelphia, often called Philly, is the largest city in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the sixth-largest city in the U.S., the second-largest city in both the Northeast megalopolis and Mid-Atlantic regions after New York City. Since ...
,
Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania (; ( Pennsylvania Dutch: )), officially the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, is a state spanning the Mid-Atlantic, Northeastern, Appalachian, and Great Lakes regions of the United States. It borders Delaware to its southeast, ...
, USA. The university relocated from
Center City to
West Philadelphia
West Philadelphia, nicknamed West Philly, is a section of the city of Philadelphia. Alhough there are no officially defined boundaries, it is generally considered to reach from the western shore of the Schuylkill River, to City Avenue to the nort ...
in the 1870s, and its oldest buildings date from that period. The Historic District was added to the
National Register of Historic Places
The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic ...
on December 28, 1978.
In 1978, the Historic District comprised 28
contributing properties
In the law regulating historic districts in the United States, a contributing property or contributing resource is any building, object, or structure which adds to the historical integrity or architectural qualities that make the historic distr ...
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
The Richards Medical Research Laboratories, located on the campus of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, were designed by architect Louis Kahn and are considered to have been a breakthrough in his career. The building is configured ...
— 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 online version of the 1978 NRHP Nomination is missing a page, leaving Buildings #6 and #7 unidentified.
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Adjacent to the Historic District
References
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National Register of Historic Places in Philadelphia
Gothic Revival architecture in Pennsylvania
Late Gothic Revival architecture
Tudor Revival architecture in Pennsylvania
University of Pennsylvania campus
Historic districts in Philadelphia
University and college buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania
University City, Philadelphia
Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania