As the number of students and faculty grew, the College moved to larger quarters,
establishing a campus at 33rd and Arch Streets. Located in the suburban Powelton Village
section of West Philadelphia (across the Schuylkill River from downtown Philadelphia),
the academic building was a seven-story Victorian stone mansion with gas lighting
and a big wrap-around porch, surrounded by grassy lawns. Didactic classes were held
in the mansion’s ornate parlor; the second floor housed osteopathic treatment and
operating rooms. Anatomic dissections were consigned to the basement.
During this time [1906], PCIO also opened the Osteopathic Dispensary at 1617 Fairmount Avenue. The three-bed facility directed a clinic for the underprivileged of the community seeking osteopathic treatment.
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