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There’s a new 18th-century-style coffeehouse at Penn

The university opened a full-scale recreation of a colonial coffee house, a centerpiece of Penn’s first major exhibit of the Semiquincentennial, as the 250th anniversary of America's birth is known.

The recreation of an 18th century coffee house ahead of the opening of “Revolution at Penn?” an exhibition at the Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center that explores the founding of the University of Pennsylvania and its history during the American Revolution.
The recreation of an 18th century coffee house ahead of the opening of “Revolution at Penn?” an exhibition at the Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center that explores the founding of the University of Pennsylvania and its history during the American Revolution.Read moreMonica Herndon / Staff Photographer