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
Robert Rodes McGoodwin
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Robert Rhodes McGoodwin was an American architect and educator, best known for his suburban houses in the Chestnut Hill and Mount Airy sections of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He taught at University o
Houston Hall (University of Pennsylvania)
…student union, Bennett Hall, was built at 34th & Walnut streets in 1926. Houston Hall has undergone several renovations throughout its history. In 1936, Robert Rodes McGoodwin expanded it with a dining hall at the east end and a student lounge at the west end. In 2000, Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates (an architectural…
University of Pennsylvania Library (1888–91). McGoodwin's 1931 Collegiate Gothic addition is at right.