St. Anthony Hall House

The story

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St. Anthony Hall House is a building at 3637 Locust Walk at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, built between 1907 and 1909 and designed by Cope and Stewardson. Its architecture mixes the Academic Gothic, Collegiate Gothic and Jacobean Revival styles.

Why it's listed

It was listed under criterion C, with local-level significance in architecture and criteria consideration A, for its period of significance from 1907 to 1909, the years it was built.

Physical character

Brick bearing walls, laid in Flemish bond on a stone foundation, carry limestone trim and quoins, a broken limestone pediment topped with an urn, and a leaded stained glass window depicting St. Anthony; a garden court lies to the north. The rear literary meeting building was removed in 1968, balconies were added in 1987, and a west wall was rebuilt in 1989 to match the original 1907 wall. A restoration project led by Cope & Lippincott, Architects began in 2002.

Historical context

The building was associated with the Fraternity of Delta Psi's Delta Chapter and its Delta Alumni Association, on University of Pennsylvania land. Locust Walk was closed to vehicles and reserved for pedestrians in the 1970s. At the time of its listing it was used for education-related purposes.