{"nrhp_refnum":"08000785","name":"Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania","other_names":["Medical College of Pennsylvania","Medical Campus of","Philadelphia"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"3300 Henry Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Philadelphia","county":"Philadelphia","state":"PA","lat":40.01306484400007,"lon":-75.18424669116656,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2008-11-26","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Health/Medicine","Education","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A former medical college campus in the East Falls neighborhood of Philadelphia, at Henry Avenue and Abbotsford Road, comprising a main administrative, classroom and hospital building with later wings, a gatehouse and a landscaped parking circle. The main building was designed by Ritter & Shay from plans dated 1926 and constructed in 1929-1930.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the campus is the principal remaining artifact of Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania's role in American women's medical education, and that its 1929 facility transformed the school into a modern institution with research laboratories and a teaching hospital. It also points to the campus's Federal Revival design and the later wings by Schmidt, Garden & Erikson and George M. Ewing as examples of evolving hospital architecture.","narrative":"Built on a large site in East Falls, Philadelphia, the campus was developed by Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania after it moved from College Avenue near Girard College. The main building, designed in 1926 by Ritter & Shay and completed in 1929-1930, is a four-story red brick structure with limestone trim, a limestone portico and a pediment bearing the college's name. Its interior includes a central lobby with original wood trim, a medical amphitheater style auditorium and original stairs. Post-war additions include a research wing, a clinic wing, a hospital wing and the Ann Preston nursing building. The campus is significant for its role in women's medical training, which the college provided through female faculty and administrators in an era when most medical schools excluded women from leadership. It is also important for its modern hospital planning, which reflected early twentieth century ideas about hygiene and efficiency.","period_of_significance":"c1890 - 1969","architect_builder":"Ritter & Shay; Schmidt, Garden & Erikson; George M. Ewing; Ewing, Cole, Erdman, Cherry","architectural_style":"20th Century Colonial Revival; Federal Revival; Modern: moderne; International Style","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":null,"vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:10:27.425959-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/08000785.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/08000785/c06b263481-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/08000785/c06b263481-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Smallbones","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WoMedCoOPenn.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Smallbones</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WoMedCoOPenn.JPG"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"72001151","name":"Fairmount Park","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/pennsylvania/fairmount-park-72001151/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71997484","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q130340354"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/philadelphia/womans-medical-college-of-pennsylvania-08000785/"}