Van Pelt Library
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Built in 1962, The Charles Patterson Van Pelt Library at the University of Pennsylvania was designed by architects Harbeson, Hough, Livingston, & Larson. It has a gross area of 201,215 square feet. It is also known as the Van Pelt Dietrich Library Center, and simply Van Pelt. In addition to being the primary library on campus for social sciences and humanities, it also houses the Lippincott Library of the Wharton School, the Ormandy Music Library, and the Annenberg Rare Book and Manuscript Library. Van Pelt houses strong area-studies collections in African, Japanese, Latin American, Chinese, Middle East, South Asian, and Judiaica & Ancient Near East Studies.
Vaguely Grecian with a massive colonnade, but screened by brick panels with small windows that resemble an old French library, the Van Pelt Library is a major presence on the campus. A large modern art sculpture, called The Button, sits at its southern entrance.
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