Houston Hall (University of Pennsylvania)
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Houston Hall is the student union of the University of Pennsylvania, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Completed in 1896, it was the first student union built on an American college campus.[3]
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Type | Student union | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Architectural style | Collegiate gothic | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Location | University City | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Address | 3417 Spruce Street Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Opened | 1896 (1896) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Renovated | 1936, 2000 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Owner | University of Pennsylvania | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Floor count | 4 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Design and construction | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Architect(s) | Frank Miles Day, William C. Hays, and Milton Bennett Medary | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Architect(s) | Robert Rodes McGoodwin (1936) Venturi, Scott, Brown (2000) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Houston Hall was listed as a National Register of Historic Places contributing property in the University of Pennsylvania Campus Historic District in 1978.[1]