University of Pennsylvania, Dental Hall, 3300 Smith Walk, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA

Significance: The Dental Hall was the first purpose-built school of dentistry in the United States. When the Dental School moved to a new building in 1915, it was converted to house the School of Architecture, remaining its home during the heyday of the professorships of Paul P. Cret and dean Warren P. Laird, and later during the tenure of Dean G. Holmes Perkins and Louis Kahn, Robert Venturi and Romaldo Giurgola. It play an important spatial role in balancing the mass of the Towne Building across Locust Walk and is a contributing resource of the National Register of Historc Places University of Pennsylvania Historic District.
Survey number: HABS PA-6176
Building/structure dates: 1897 Initial Construction
Building/structure dates: 1915 Subsequent Work
Building/structure dates: 1950 Subsequent Work
Building/structure dates: 1967 Subsequent Work
Building/structure dates: 1987 Subsequent Work
National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 78002457