Kelly Writers House

The Kelly Writer's House was founded by a group of students, faculty, staff and alumni in 1995 to serve as a center for writers of all kinds from Penn and the Philadelphia region at large. One of a pair of surviving Gothic cottages by Samuel Sloan, one of the most important Philadelphia architects of the mid‑nineteenth century whose practice had national impact, this building recalls  the essentially rural nature of the area which began to transform after the middle of the 19th century.