College Hall, completed in 1873, was the first building constructed on the University's present site. It once housed all functions of the University and now contains the offices of the President, Provost, and Undergraduate Admissions, as well as classrooms. College Hall is also home to the Philomathean Society, a student organization founded in 1813.

You may have seen a version of College Hall without being aware of it. When Lurch the butler answers the door at the home of Morticia and Gomez Addams, it is College Hall that you see. Cartoonist and Penn alumnus Charles Addams is said to have used the building as his inspiration for the mansion of the Addams Family.