Woman’s Medical College of Pennsylvania
Founded in 1850, The Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania, formally known as The Female Medical College of Pennsylvania, was the first American medical college dedicated to teaching women medicine and allowing them to earn the Doctor of Medicine degree.Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
- Type: Commerce
- Description: American medical school, now absorbed by Drexel University School of Medicine
- Also known as: “Falls Center”, “Female Medical College”, “Female Medical College of Pennsylvania”, “Medical College of Pennsylvania Hospital”, “Woman’s Medical College of Philadelphia”, and “Women’s Medical College of Pennsylvania”
- Address: 3300 Henry Avenue, Philadelphia, 19129
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include East Falls station and Falls of Schuylkill Branch Library.
East Falls station
Railway station
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East Falls station is a station located along the Manayunk/Norristown Line in the East Falls section of Lower Northwest Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It is located at Midvale Avenue & Cresson Street and includes a 51 space parking lot. East Falls station is situated 2,100 feet west of Woman’s Medical College of Pennsylvania.
Falls of Schuylkill Branch Library
Library
Photo: Jim.henderson, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Falls of Schuylkill Branch Library is situated 2,400 feet west of Woman’s Medical College of Pennsylvania.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Allegheny West and East Falls.
Allegheny West
Neighborhood
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Allegheny West is a neighborhood in the North Philadelphia section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. It is named after its location in the vicinity of Allegheny Avenue on the western side of Broad Street.
East Falls
Neighborhood
East Falls is a neighborhood in Lower Northwest, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. It lies on the east bank of the "Falls of the Schuylkill," cataracts submerged in 1822 by the Schuylkill Canal and Fairmount Water Works projects.
Wissahickon
Neighborhood
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Wissahickon is a neighborhood in the section of Lower Northwest Philadelphia in the state of Pennsylvania, United States. Wissahickon is located adjacent to the neighborhoods of Roxborough and Manayunk, and it is bounded by the Wissahickon Valley Park, Ridge Avenue, Hermit Street, and Henry Avenue.
Woman’s Medical College of Pennsylvania
- Categories: medical school and historic site
- Location: Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Philadelphia Region, Pennsylvania, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
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Latitude
40.0118° or 40° 0′ 43″ northLongitude
-75.18442° or 75° 11′ 4″ westOpen location code
87G62R68+P6OpenStreetMap ID
way 73038639OpenStreetMap feature
historic=yesOpenStreetMap feature
landuse=commercialWikidata ID
Q8030657
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In Other Languages
From Armenian to Welsh—“Woman’s Medical College of Pennsylvania” goes by many names.
- Armenian: “Փենսիլվանիայի կանանց բժշկական քոլեջ”
- Catalan: “Col·legi Femení de Medicina de Pennsylvannia”
- Catalan: “Women’s Medical College de Pennsilvània”
- Chinese: “宾夕法尼亚女子医学院”
- Chinese: “宾夕法尼亚女子医科大学”
- Chinese: “賓夕法尼亞女子醫學院”
- Chinese: “賓夕法尼亞女子醫科大學”
- Chinese: “賓夕法尼亞州女子醫學院”
- Czech: “Women’s Medical College of Pennsylvania”
- Czech: “Ženská lékařská fakulta v Pensylvánii”
- Dutch: “Woman’s Medical College of Pennsylvania”
- French: “Woman’s Medical College of Pennsylvania”
- Galician: “Women’s Medical College de Pensilvania”
- Hebrew: “בית הספר לרפואה לנשים של פנסילבניה”
- Indonesian: “Women’s Medical College of Pennsylvania”
- Italian: “Woman’s Medical College of Pennsylvania”
- Japanese: “ペンシルヴェニア女子医科大学”
- Japanese: “ペンシルベニア女子医科大学”
- Malayalam: “വിമെൻസ് മെഡിക്കൽ കോളേജ് ഓഫ് പെൻസിൽവാനിയ”
- Malayalam: “വുമൺസ് മെഡിക്കൽ കോളേജ് ഓഫ് പെൻസിൽവാനിയ”
- Marathi: “विमेन्स मेडिकल कॉलेज ऑफ पेनसिल्व्हेनिया”
- Marathi: “विमेन्स मेडिकल कॉलेज ऑफ पेन्सिल्व्हेनिया”
- Russian: “Женский медицинский колледж Пенсильвании”
- Russian: “Пенсильванский женский медицинский колледж”
- Spanish: “Woman’s Medical College of Pennsylvania”
- Swedish: “Female Medical College of Pennsylvania”
- Swedish: “Woman’s Medical College of Pennsylvania”
- Welsh: “Coleg Meddygol Woman of Pennsylvania”
- “Woman’s Medical College of Pennsylvania”
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