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.
Houston Hall, on an 1898 postcard.
Photograph of Houston Hall taken in 1896, the year it opened.
Henry Howard Houston Jr by Cecilia Beaux, 1895
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A student center is a type of building found on university and some high school campuses. In the United States, such a building may also be called a student union, student commons, or union.
Houston Hall (University of Pennsylvania)
…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…
Student Activity Center on the campus of Texas Tech University
The first student activity center in America was Houston Hall at the University of Pennsylvania
The William Pitt Union as the Schenley Hotel