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Dorrance H. Hamilton Building

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Thomas Jefferson University

1020 Walnut Street
Philadelphia, PA 19107

Self Guided Tours

The main entrance of the building opens up into a spacious lobby, which features large expanses of glass.

The facility’s curved façade reveals the Sidney and Ethal Lubert Plaza, the heart of campus. Keeping the space accessible to the community helps Jefferson be a true partner in this urban environment.

The first floor also houses two retail spaces—one on the corner of 11th and Locust Streets and the other mid-block on Locust Street, fulfilling the request of the redevelopment authority and urban zoning requirements.

The technologically advanced Connelly Auditorium, located on the main floor, was designed to hold an entire medical college class (296) and will be used for continuing medical education as well. With full audio/visual capabilities, including Internet access, the auditorium has teleconferencing capabilities, which enable a lecture held here to be broadcast to and receive input from an off-site audience. For example, pediatricians at duPont could ask questions of a lecturer they’ve been watching in the Connelly Auditorium. Additionally, the lobby is connected to the auditorium so that speakers can be broadcast into the lobby if there is an overflow audience.

Classrooms are located throughout the building allow enough space for groups of 300 — the entire seating capacity of the auditorium — to break out into groups of 15.

Every classroom has full audio/visual capabilities including Internet access.

A special digital system can display anything that is being filmed in the specialty labs or exam rooms via the Internet in the building’s small group spaces on a 10-second delay. Classrooms hold groups of 15, 30, and 75.