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Coordinates: 39.9524°N 75.2019°W. St. Mary’s Church, Hamilton Village, is an Episcopal Church located on the University of Pennsylvania campus in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It calls itself the Episcopal Church at Penn to emphasize its campus ministry. [1] . The parish is part of the Episcopal Church in the Diocese of Pennsylvania.
St. Mary’s, Hamilton Village 3916 Locust Walk, Philadelphia, PA 19104 (215) 386-3916. the Episcopal chaplaincy to the University of Pennsylvania. LINK TO Worship LINK TO SANCTUARY JAM HISTORY
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St. Mary’s Church, Hamilton Village. Front-side view of the church around the Spring. Front view of the church around the Holiday season. The red door. Sanctuary. The set of Idiopathic Ridiculopathy Consortium’s Dream Girl. Photo: austinart.org.
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By the first decades of the nineteenth century, however, the population of psychiatric patients swelled beyond the Pennsylvania Hospital’s capacities. Hospital officials then decided to create a separate asylum in a bucolic setting, and a 130-acre tract of land was purchased in Blockley Township (at the current 49th and Market streets). The Pennsyl...
Philadelphia’s public almshouse developed as a multifunctional institute, part shelter, workhouse, orphanage, and hospital (the facility, not coincidentally, had various names associated with it—as the Philadelphia Almshouse and the Philadelphia General Hospital). Housing growing numbers of public wards, the cramped original and expanded buildings ...
University of Pennsylvania: 1870–1900
The relocation of the University of Pennsylvania to West Philadelphia after the Civil War was a key development. Benjamin Franklin had founded the University in Colonial Philadelphia in 1749 and originally located it in a single building on 4th Street, just below Arch. In 1802, looking for better facilities and more space, the trustees moved the University to the west side of 9th Street, between Market and Chestnut streets. By the mid-1860s, however, the area around the 9th Street campus had...
Drexel Institute of Art, Science, and Industry
A newly established institution of higher learning would adjoin the re-relocated University of Pennsylvania during Penn’s building boom of the 1890s. In 1892, the doors of the Drexel Institute of Art, Science, and Industry opened at 32nd and Chestnut Streets; an old inn, the "Black Castle," and the Kean homestead had occupied the site. Anthony J. Drexel, a powerful Philadelphia financier, and George W. Childs, a well-known philanthropist, provided the initial endowment. Drexel separately dona...
The placement of institutions of higher learning was new to West Philadelphia; locating hospitals there in the late nineteenth century followed earlier precedents. Two new large hospitals, the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania (HUP) and Presbyterian Hospital, further identified West Philadelphia with institutions for the care of the sick a...
Between 1850 and 1900, more than 100 neighborhood houses of worship were built in West Philadelphia. Protestant Christians led the way with more than 70 churches, Roman Catholics added nine of their own. Among the Protestants, the Presbyterians planted 16 churches and the Episcopalians, 15. Lutherans, Methodists, and Baptists also contributed liber...
West Philadelphia Catholic families may have preferred parochial schools, but not for the absence of widely available public schools. In 1854, at the time of the political consolidation of Philadelphia, there were only seven public schools in all of West Philadelphia. They served the existing communities of Hamiltonville, Mantua, Hestonville, and H...
Finally, guided by the prominent examples of the Pennsylvania Hospital for the Insane and the Blockley Almshouse, nearly four dozen Philadelphia benevolent and charitable institutions located or relocated in West Philadelphia in the last half of the nineteenth century. In West Philadelphia they found ample space and privacy for their specialized se...
left some land for the erection of an Episcopal Church; it is upon this property that Saint Mary's now stands. The section of the countryside was known as Hamilton (or Hamiltonville), and the Parish retains the name in its official title, Saint Mary's Church, Hamilton Village.
