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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 Fisher Fine Arts Library was the primary library of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia from 1891 to 1962. The red sandstone, brick-and-terra-cotta Venetian Gothic giant, part fortress and part cathedral, was designed by Philadelphia architect Frank Furness (1839–1912).
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.
Noyes Leech (1921–2010), University of Pennsylvania College Class of 1943 (BA), and University of Pennsylvania Law School Class of 1948.; [39] [40] [41] served as editor-in-chief of the University of Pennsylvania Law Review; [42] [43] reestablished the Mitchell Club as a diverse group of fellow legal students; [44] Ferdinand Wakeman Hubbell ...
5th-4th century BC Etruscan gold necklace, display at the Penn Museum, 2005.. The Penn Museum is an archaeology and anthropology museum at the University of Pennsylvania.It is located on Penn's campus in the University City neighborhood of Philadelphia, at the intersection of 33rd and South Streets. [1]
The Reverend George Whitefield is a monumental statue which once stood on the campus of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.Dedicated in 1919, it was designed by sculptor R. Tait McKenzie and honors its namesake George Whitefield, Anglican cleric who was a founder of Methodism.
Loren Eiseley (1907–1977) University of Pennsylvania School of Arts and Sciences class of 1937, MA and Ph.D.: Benjamin Franklin Professor of Anthropology and History and Sociology of Science at the University of Pennsylvania, anthropologist, philosopher, and natural science writer (such that Publishers Weekly referred to him as "the modern ...