Liberman's intention was to create a "feeling of bonding together for a higher purpose".  It was purchased as part of a citywide ordinance which requires that 1% of expenditures for any city-assisted construction be spent on public art.  In 1975, the unusual sculpture opened to mixed reviews from the University's newspaper, "The Daily Pennsylvanian" with some comparing it to giant ketchup bottles; others to nuclear reactors.  


Covenant

Built as a students' club house and the first student union in America, this English Collegiate building was designed by two students from the University's Department of Architecture (William C. Hays and Milton B. Medary). The implementation of the design was overseen by Philadelphia architect Frank Miles Day.&nbsp;

The most recent restoration of the building, completed in 1999. It once housed a bowling alley, swimming pool, theater and gymnasium. Today, it offers meeting rooms, open student lounge and study areas and several food outlets.

Houston Hall

Charged to construct the "best college library in America", famed architect Frank Furness developed the design for this library with consultation from Melvil Dewey (inventor of the Dewey Decimal System) and Harvard librarian Justin Winsor. A step into the interior reveals a grand staircase, lofty reading rooms and more impressive architectural details.

The Duhring Wing was built at the south end of the stacks, making their designed expansion impossible.

Architect Robert Rodes McGoodwin drew up plans to cloak the entire building in sedate Collegiate Gothic brick and stone. The first step toward this was the 1931 addition of a reading room facing College Green (now the Arthur Ross Gallery) that masked the iron-and-glass stacks.Almost perversely, McGoodwin's incongruous Collegiate Gothic addition was dedicated as a memorial to Horace Howard Furness, however H.H Furness's Shakespeare home library home was housed in the addition before being moved to Van Pelt Library. A garden with plants found in Shakespeare's works was grown in front of the addition.

University of Pennslyvania recorder George E. Nitzsche included in his 1914 book “University of Pennsylvania: Its History, Traditions, Buildings and Memorials” a list of “mottoes on the windows and elsewhere in the library,” totaling more than 80, mostly in English, but some in Latin and Greek and one in cuneiform. Many quotes are from works of Shakespeare, from “Hamlet” to “Henry V” to “As You Like It” and beyond. After the library’s dedication in 1891, The Daily Pennsylvanian reported that H.H. Furness said the mottos were “not to teach the rustic moralist how to die, but to teach the learned student how to live.”

illustration in Proceedings at the Opening of the University of Pennsylvania Library (Philadelphia: February 7, 1891), opposite page 32.

Anne and Jerome Fisher Fine Arts Library

College Hall was the first building constructed on the University of Pennsylvania's West Philadelphia campus. It originally housed all functions of the University and is now home to the offices of the President, Provost, and Undergraduate Admissions. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Levy Park ("The Green") on the University of Pennsylvania's Campus

College Hall

This soaring Gothic structure houses the famous 11,000 pipe Curtis Pipe Organ. Its massive interior, which seats 1,260, is the setting for musical and dance performances, screenings, lectures, and rehearsal rooms.The survival of the academic Gothic into the late 1920s demonstrated the power of tradition and the force of Henry Adams exposition of medieval civilization in Mont Saint Michel and Chartres on Horace Trumbauer, a Philadelphia architect favored by some members of the city's emerging wealthy class in the early 20th century, and a national representative of the Wideners and the Dukes.

Irvine Auditorium

The University of Pennsylvania is a private Ivy League research university located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was founded in 1740 and now offers a wide range of academic programs across its 12 schools, including the School of Arts and Sciences, the Wharton School of Business, and the School of Engineering and Applied Science.The university is known for its strong research programs and has produced many notable alumni, including 14 heads of state, 25 billionaires, and 3 United States Supreme Court justices. The university has also been associated with many important discoveries and inventions, including the discovery of the Hepatitis B virus and the development of the first general-purpose electronic computer.

The original building is on the left, and the dormitory (or New Building) on the right. This is the only known contemporary view to exist.

Reproduction of an original pencil sketch

Procession entering the New Building, home of the College, to hear first Professor of Law James Wilson

Where College’s first Provost William Smith (1755-1779) taught his classes February to April, 1758 Professor of ethics 1754-1791 Secretary of board of trustees 1764-1790 President of board of trustees 1790-1791

Photo print of original engraving “Library and Surgeons Hall in Fifth Street Philadelphia”, 1799

Derived from a detail of print “Library and Surgeons Hall in Fifth Street Philadelphia”

After the return of the Fourth and Arch Street campus to the trustees of the College of Philadelphia, the University of the State of Pennsylvania leased the Hall of the American Philosophical Society. After the 1791 union of these two institutions as the University of Pennsylvania, this building was no longer needed.

Looking east from 10th and Market Streets, before 1806-1807

Drawing by Armstrong, engraved by Kneass, Young and Company

with Medical Department wing (at left of view).

After the 1817 addition of the cupola to the Medical Department wing

The small residences at rear of church may have been used as anatomical laboratories

with St. Stephen’s Church in the background

in preparation for the University’s move to West Philadelphia &nbsp;

The good Education of Youth has been esteemed by wise Men in all Ages, as the surest Foundation of the Happiness both of private Families and of Common-wealths. Almost all Governments have therefore made it a principal Object of their Attention, to establish and endow with proper Revenues, such Seminaries of Learning, as might supply the succeeding Age with Men qualified to serve the Publick with Honour to themselves, and to their Country.1Many of the first Settlers of these Provinces, were Men who had received a good Education in Europe, and to their Wisdom and good Management we owe much of our present Prosperity. But their Hands were full, and they could not do all Things. The present Race are not thought to be generally of equal Ability: For though the American Youth are allow’d not to want Capacity; yet the best Capacities require Cultivation, it being truly with them, as with the best Ground, which unless well tilled and sowed with profitable Seed, produces only ranker Weeds.That we may obtain the Advantages arising from an Increase of Knowledge, and prevent as much as may be the mischievous Consequences that would attend a general Ignorance among us, the following Hints are offered towards forming a Plan for the Education of the Youth of Pennsylvania, viz.

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President’s House (1790-1829)

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Diagonal walkway from Smith Walk to 33th Street, between Hayden Hall and the Chemistry Building

Along Locust Walk, in front of College Hall

in front of Van Pelt library; southwest corner

The University of Pennsylvania (Penn or UPenn) is a prestigious Ivy League research university located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Founded in 1740, it is one of the oldest institutions of higher education in the United States. Benjamin Franklin, one of America's Founding Fathers, played a pivotal role in its establishment, envisioning an institution that combined practical education with classical studies. Penn is known for its interdisciplinary approach, housing four undergraduate schools and 12 graduate and professional schools, including the renowned Wharton School of Business and the Perelman School of Medicine. It was also the first American university to establish a medical school in 1765. With a strong emphasis on research, innovation, and public service, Penn continues to be a leader in academia and beyond.

University of Pennsylvania Athletics Names Track Oval Inside Franklin Field as the Rogers-O’Hern Lyons Oval/Track in 2021

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