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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 ...
In 1755, under the terms of the Additional Charter, the academy was granted collegiate rank and became the College, Academy and Charitable School of Philadelphia in the Province of Pennsylvania, otherwise called the College of Philadelphia.
Fourth Street campus, College of Philadelphia: Academy/College Building (built 1740) and Dormitory/Charity School (built 1762), c. 1770. Reproduction of a sketch by French artist Pierre Eugène Du Simitière.
Curriculum Overview. The Academy of Philadelphia was founded to provide a classical education with a modern twist. An advertisement at the time of its opening in January of 1751 offered teaching in the following areas:
The Academy of Philadelphia opened in 1751 in the building which once housed George Whitfield's charity tabernacle on Philadelphia's Fourth Street, near Arch. The first provost of the college was Anglican clergyman, William Smith with Franklin serving as the first president of the board of trustees.
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.
The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts ( PAFA) is a museum and private art school in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. [4] . It was founded in 1805 and is the first and oldest art museum and art school in the United States. [4]
