University of Pennsylvania Campus Historic District

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The University of Pennsylvania Campus Historic District is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as a historic district on the campus of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, eastern USA. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.

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Contributing properties

The Historic District comprises 28 contributing properties over 117 acres (0.47 km²), including:

College Hall, Thomas W. Richards, 1871-1872
Logan Hall, Thomas W. Richards, 1874
John Harrison (Smith) Chemistry Lab, Collins and Autenreith, 1886
Furness Library, Furness and Evans, 1888-1891; Duhring Wing, 1914-1915
Morgan Laboratory of Physics (School of Nursing and Music Building), Cope and Stewardson, 1892
Wistar Institute, G. W. & W. D. Hewitt 1894; addition, 1897
Quadrangle Dormitories, Cope and Stewardson, 1895-1910
Houston Hall, William C. Hays and Milton Bennett Medary (under Frank Miles Day), 1895
University Museum, original design by Wilson Eyre, Cope and Stewardson, and Frank Miles Day, 1895-1899. Additions in 1912 and 1929; new wing designed by Mitchell and Giurgola, 1971
Dental Hall (in 1915 Fine Arts Building, present-day Hayden Hall), Edgar Viguers Seeler, 1896
"The Castle" (Tau chapter of Psi Upsilon Fraternity), William D. Hewitt, 1897-99
Phi Delta Theta (present-day Environmental Studies), Oswald Shelly, 1900
Towne Building, Cope and Stewardson, 1903
Franklin Field, Day & Klauder, 1904; Horace Trumbauer, 1925
Medical School, Cope and Stewardson, 1904, 1928
Weightman Hall, Frank Miles Day, 1904
Veterinary School and Hospital, designed by Walter Cope and Emlyn Stewardson, 1906, 1912
Phi Kappa Sigma fraternity, Bissell and Sinkler, 1910
Zoological Laboratory (present-day Leidy Laboratory of Biology), Cope and Stewardson, 1910
Delta Upsilon, L. Kintzing, 1913
Delta Tau Delta, Bissell and Sinkler, 1914
Moore School of Electrical Engineering, Erskine and Morris, 1921; renovated by Paul Cret 1926; third story added by Alfred Bendiner in 1940
Bennett Hall, Stewardson and Page, 1925
Hutchinson Gym and Palestra, Frank Miles Day and Charles Klauder, 1926, 1928
Irvine Auditorium, Horace Trumbauer, 1926-1932
Richards Medical Research Laboratories, Louis Kahn, 1962