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The Academy and College of Philadelphia (1749–1791) was a boys' school and men's college in Philadelphia in the colonial-era Province of Pennsylvania. Founded in 1749 by a group of local notables that included Benjamin Franklin , the Academy of Philadelphia began as a private secondary school, occupying a former religious school ...
History of Penn's 18th Century Campus. The College, Academy, and Charitable School classrooms were housed in the “New Building,” located at Fourth and Arch Streets from 1751 through 1801. This building was even larger in size than the State House (now Independence Hall). It had been constructed with the intention of serving as a church for ...
This description of the curriculum in the Academy covers the time period from its founding in 1749 to the reorganization of the Academy after the 1791 union of the College with the University of the State of Pennsylvania. Curriculum Overview. The Academy of Philadelphia was founded to provide a classical education with a modern twist.
In the mid-eighteenth century the institution was known as the “College, Academy, and Charity School of Philadelphia.” When the Medical School was founded in 1765, the College and the Medical School became a university, although the term “university” was not added to the institution’s official title until 1779.
To the College of Philadelphia belonged the distinction that it became the first college in North America to place emphasis on the study of science and the first to institute a department of medicine.
Under Franklin's presidency, the Academy of Philadelphia began offering instruction in 1751. Two years later, at Franklin's invitation, William Smith joined the Academy as a teacher of natural philosophy and logic; and in 1755, when the Academy was rechartered as the College of Philadelphia, Smith became its first Provost.
History of the College. Penn dates its founding to 1740, when a plan emerged to build a Philadelphia charity school that would double as a house of worship. After construction was underway, however, the cost was seen to be much greater than the available resources, and the project went unfinished for a decade.
