This image looking west shows Franklin Field in 1903, eight years after its opening. The stadium was built on land transferred from Blockley Almshouse to the University of Pennsylvania in 1889.
The University Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology was built on former almshouse property across Vintage Avenue from HUP and several blocks west of the almshouse and its hospital buildings. The Museum opened in its first phase in 1899; the rotunda was completed in 1915.
This image shows in the foreground Furness Library, Penn’s first library, whose architect was the industrial age architect Frank Furness, with College Hall in the background. The library was built on former almshouse land and was dedicated in 1891.
This image from 1888 shows the original building of the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, which was completed in 1874 as part of the 10-acre tract transferred from Blockley Almshouse to the University in 1870.
College Hall was the first University of Pennsylvania building to rise in the 10-acre tract of Blockley Almshouse property purchased by the Penn trustees in 1870. It was designed by the architect Thomas Webb Richards, built with green serpentine stone, and opened to students in 1892.
University Redevelopment Area Unit 3 came to represent the divide between university and community after residents were displaced as part of the creation of the University City Science Center.
The Martin Plan, as illustrated by this map from the original report, proposed expanding the University of Pennsylvania campus over portions of Woodland Avenue.
This map, recreated from the Redevelopment Authority's 1965 Annual Report, represents the approximate boundaries of the major initiatives from 1948–1965.
Sheldon Hackney (second from left) discusses divestment in apartheid South Africa in 1986. Student protests for divestment were part of the turbulent campus politics Hackney experienced during his tenure as President of the University of Pennsylvania.
