Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
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.
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.
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.
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
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]
This page was last edited on 1 February 2024, at 02:07 (UTC).; Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License; additional terms may apply.
The Benjamin Franklin National Memorial features a 20-foot (6.1 m) high marble statue, sculpted by James Earle Fraser. [29] Originally opened in 1938, the Memorial was designed by architect John T. Windrim and modeled after the Pantheon in Rome .
Franklin Field is a sports stadium in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, at the eastern edge of the University of Pennsylvania's campus. Named after Penn's founder, Benjamin Franklin , it is the home stadium for the Penn Relays , [ 2 ] and the university's venue for football , track and field , and lacrosse .