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A legend exists, mainly circulated by students at the University of Pennsylvania, that attributes The Button to the university's founder, Benjamin Franklin.A monument of a seated Franklin stands near the sculpture; legend has it that when this man of considerable girth sat down, his vest button popped off and rolled across the university's Locust Walk.
A bronze statue of a seated Benjamin Franklin by John J. Boyle is installed at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It is located in front of College Hall , on Locust Walk, between 34th and 36th Streets, [ 1 ] and is one of three statues of Franklin on the campus.
It is the focal piece of the Memorial Hall of the Franklin Institute, which was designed by John Windrim and modeled after the Roman Pantheon. The statue and Memorial Hall were designated as the Benjamin Franklin National Memorial in 1972. It is the primary location memorializing Benjamin Franklin in the U.S. [3]
College Hall and the University of Pennsylvania library from Locust Street, c. 1901 College Hall from the southeast, before 1910 John J. Boyle's 1899 statue of Benjamin Franklin in front of College Hall
(now Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania) 5 Cope & Stewardson Stewardson & Page 1904 1928 3620 Hamilton Walk John Morgan Building Moore School of Electrical Engineering: 12 Morris & Erskine 1921 1926 renovation by Paul Cret 1940, 3rd story added by Alfred Bendiner: 200 South 33rd Street (SW corner 33rd & Walnut Streets)
The College of Arts & Sciences was preceded by two schools, the Charity School and the Academy of Philadelphia.Initially organized by the founder of Methodism, George Whitefield, as "Charity School," a secondary school known as "Academy of Philadelphia" was eventually founded by Benjamin Franklin in 1749, and was expanded to include a collegiate division known as "College of Philadelphia" in ...
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A marble memorial statue of Franklin, the Benjamin Franklin National Memorial, in Philadelphia Franklin bequeathed £1,000 (about $4,400 at the time, or about $125,000 in 2021 dollars [ 295 ] ) each to the cities of Boston and Philadelphia, in trust to gather interest for 200 years.