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In 1848 the Homoeopathic Medical College of Pennsylvania commenced instruction in Philadelphia. In 1867 some facility separated themselves from the college and established the Hahnemann Medical College of Philadelphia. In 1869 the two were united as Hahnemann Medical College of Philadelphia. In 1850, with the medical college, the Homoeopathic Hospital was chartered and opened but closed two years later. In 1871 the Hahnemann Hospital re-opened. Latter the college and hospital joined together, later separating but once more reuniting in 1885, under the name the Hahnemann Medical College and Hospital of Philadelphia. Taken from "Founders’ Week Memorial Volume", Frederick P. Henry, ed., 1909, p. 291-304. In 1981, the combined medical, graduate, and alied health school and hospital became Hahnemann University. Collection Summary: Contains primarily prints (blueprints, etc.), followed by original working drawings, photographs, and one rendered presentation drawing of the Hahnemann medical school and hospital facilities located on Broad Street, between Race and Vine Streets, and extending from Broad Street to Fifteenth Street in Philadelphia. Series I includes: (1) print of a perspective drawing of the proposed 1884 Hahnemann Medical College of Philadelphia on Market Street (print of lined drawing); (2) print of a perspective of the proposed 1887-1890 Hahnemann building on Fifteenth Street, designed by G.W. and W.D. Hewitt, architects, delineated by Sherborne (print of drawing); (3) photograph of the 1887-1890 Hahnemann building, Fifteenth Street facade, by photographers R. Newell and Sons (albumen photoprint); (4) photograph of the Fifteenth Street hospital facade, cicra 1915 (geletin photoprint tinted with tempera and graphite); (5) perspective drawing of a proposed new college and hospital building by Horace Trumbauer, architect, circa 1927 (charcoal on illustration board); (6), print of a perspective drawing of a proposed new college and hosptial builiding, an another design (geletin photoprint of a charcoal drawing); (7) a photograph of the same building, previously rendered, sometime after it was constructed, circa 1929 (geletin photoprint). Series II includes: working drawings for the Hahnemann Medical College and Hospital building, 1927-1929, by Pettit and Ferris, architects (New York); H. Hall Marshall, consulting engineer (New York); and John M. Smith, hospital consultant (Philadelphia). This series also includes the mechanical and electrical drawings, both under separate titles. The mechanical drawings under the names H. Hall Marshall, engineer, and John M. Smith, hospital consultant, and electrical drawings under the names H. Hall Marshall and Howard P. Foley Company, electrical contractors (Philadelphia).
Cite as: The Hahnemann Hospital Collection on loan to The Athenaeum of Philadelphia with the support of the Pew Charitable Trusts through its Museum Loan Program.
Individual holding records for this collection are available on the
Philadelphia Architects and Buildings
website.
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