{"nrhp_refnum":"73001626","name":"Old Main","other_names":["Crozer Theological Seminary","Crozer Normal School"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"21st St. and Upland Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Upland","county":"Delaware County","state":"PA","lat":39.85592302900005,"lon":-75.37091830199995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1973-06-18","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Military","Architecture","Religion","Social History"],"significance_levels":["national"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Old Main is a three-story stone building with a stucco-on-stone facade, located in the Village of Upland, Delaware County, Pennsylvania, on the campus that is now the Crozer-Chester Medical Center. It was built in 1857-1858 as a Normal Institute for Boys, with land and funds provided by textile manufacturer John Price Crozer.","why_significant":"The building served as a Civil War hospital from 1862 to 1865, receiving Union and later Confederate wounded, and it housed Crozer Theological Seminary from 1868 to 1970. The nomination also cites the seminary's graduates and its notable student Martin Luther King, Jr., who lived in room 52 of the building.","narrative":"Old Main is a three-story stone building in Upland, Delaware County, Pennsylvania, begun in 1857 as a Normal Institute for Boys and finished at a cost of $45,000. John Price Crozer, a local textile manufacturer, supplied the land and money. In July 1862 the building received 223 sick and wounded Union soldiers from the Seven Days' Fight, and later became a Confederate hospital after the battle of Gettysburg, with a twelve-foot picket fence and guards. Graffiti in the cupola and peepholes in the dormitory doors survive from that period. From 1868 to 1970 it housed Crozer Theological Seminary, which graduated some 2,000 clergymen. Martin Luther King, Jr., studied there in 1951. Its wartime use and long association with the seminary make it significant.","period_of_significance":"1850-1899","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Italianate","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"All buildings on the campus are presently being utilized for purposes of the Medical Center.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:29.631395-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/73001626.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/73001626/d358fbc3b6-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/73001626/d358fbc3b6-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"User:Smallbones on English Wikipedia.","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:OldMainUpland.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">User:Smallbones on English Wikipedia.</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:OldMainUpland.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71998436","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crozer_Theological_Seminary","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q687514"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/delaware-county/old-main-73001626/"}