{"nrhp_refnum":"05000064","name":"St. Anthony Hall House","other_names":["Delta Chapter House for the Fraternity of Delta Psi"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"3637 Locust Walk, University of Pennsylvania","address_restricted":false,"city":"Philadelphia","county":"Philadelphia","state":"PA","lat":39.95537219600004,"lon":-75.19610551999995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2005-02-15","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A three-story brick fraternity house with limestone trim on the University of Pennsylvania campus, facing Locust Walk in West Philadelphia. It was designed by Cope & Stewardson in the Academic Gothic style and construction began in 1907.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house is a well-preserved example of the Academic Gothic style adopted by many educational institutions in the early 1900s. It is described as a refinement and simplification of the firm's Quadrangle Dormitories design, scaled for a smaller residential building. The building has undergone only minor alteration and retains its original design and construction.","narrative":"Built on the north side of Locust Walk on the University of Pennsylvania campus, this three-story brick fraternity house was designed by the firm of Cope & Stewardson, with construction beginning in 1907. Its Flemish bond brick walls are decorated with limestone quoins, band courses and window surrounds, and its principal entrance on the east elevation has an aedicule-style doorway with an iron canopy. Bay windows, leaded glass, and cartouches on the parapet crown the facade. The design refines the firm's earlier Quadrangle Dormitories, dropping their turrets and simplifying the ornament. The building was commissioned by the Delta Alumni Association for the Delta Psi fraternity, and it has been occupied by the fraternity continuously since completion. It is regarded as a representative example of the Academic Gothic style on the campus, and it retains much of its original fabric and character. Its garden court and enclosing brick walls also survive.","period_of_significance":"1907-1909","architect_builder":"Cope and Stewardson (architects)","architectural_style":"Academic Gothic","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Owned and occupied by Delta Psi continuously since its completion; the rear one-story building was removed in 1968.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:10:27.082689-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/05000064.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/05000064/d91b505c91-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/05000064/d91b505c91-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Smallbones","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St_Anthony_House_U_Penn.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Smallbones</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St_Anthony_House_U_Penn.JPG"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"78002457","name":"University of Pennsylvania Campus Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/pennsylvania/university-of-pennsylvania-campus-historic-district-78002457/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71996936","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Anthony_Hall_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7587090"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/philadelphia/st-anthony-hall-house-05000064/"}