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- University of Pennsylvania, Smith Walk, Bounded by Walnut, Thirty-third, Thirty-fourth and Spruce Streets, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA
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- University of Pennsylvania, Smith Walk, Bounded by Walnut, Thirty-third, Thirty-fourth and Spruce Streets, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA
Description
Cope and Stewardson
Depicted place Pennsylvania; Philadelphia County; Philadelphia
Date Documentation compiled after 1933
Dimensions 4 x 5 in.
Current location
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
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HABS PA,51-PHILA,566G-6
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  • Significance: The landscaped walk that is now called Smith Walk preceded the campus plan of 1913 that set the goal of using buildings to frame space. With Hamilton Walk on the south side of the University of Pennsylvania campus, it established the precedent for the modern character of the campus as a series of super-blocks enclosing space from the urban streetscape. Laid out by architects Cope and Stewardson as part of their Towne Building project in 1903, the walk continued the palette of materials of that building's limestone trim and bluestone steps into the adjacent walkway. While all of the original landscape elements including the trees and the walkway materials have been replaced, the character of the original landscape survives. Later additions including the Smith statue (1926) and the War Memorial flagpole (1952) have given the walk additional presence and focus. Smith Walk with its adjacent buildings, including the National Historic Landmark Furness Building, forms a part of the National Register University of Pennsylvania Campus district.
  • Survey number: HABS PA-6179
  • Building/structure dates: 1903 Initial Construction
  • Building/structure dates: 1926 Subsequent Work
  • Building/structure dates: 1952 Subsequent Work
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This is an image of a place or building that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places in the United States of America. Its reference number is 78002457.
Source https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/pa3379.photos.359688p
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