Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania

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.