WHY WEST PHILLY ARCHITECTURE GIVES US THE CREEPS
Among the trivia that all prospective students learn on their official tour of Penn is that College Hall was the inspiration for the mansion that houses the Addams family, the “creepy and kooky” clan created by renowned cartoonist and Penn alum Charles Addams.
At the KIPP Philadelphia Charter School on 27th and North Broad Streets, the eighth grade English room is named for Penn, the alma mater of its teacher, Elizabeth O'Flanagan, C'97.