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Location
Williamson is located on Route 352, in Delaware County, Pennsylvania, one mile west of Media, the county seat, and fourteen miles west of Philadelphia. A wide variety of attractions are located nearby, including historical sites, museums, shopping malls, theaters, parks, arboreta, and many other points of interest in the historic Delaware Valley.
The Campus
Situated on 220 acres of woodland and fields, the Williamson campus is noted for its beauty. Frank Furness, one of the most highly acclaimed architects of the late 19th century, designed eleven of the School’s buildings. (The School boasts the largest collection of Furness buildings in the country and has received awards from historical societies for its upkeep of these buildings.)
In addition to faculty homes, athletic fields, woods, and streams, the campus boasts a variety of major buildings, including:
- The Main Building: administrative offices, student lounge, dining room, and the chapel.
- Ten student dormitories: Byers Hall (which also contains Health Services, a recreation room, and the School Store), Derrickson, Eyre, George, Jenks, Longstreth, Smith, Stell, Townsend, and Wanamaker.
- The Restall Sports Center, completed in 1988, offers a basketball court, indoor running track, weight room, locker rooms, offices, lounge, and laundry facilities.
- The John Wanamaker Free School of Artisans, an integral part of the School, includes separate, modern Carpentry, Machine, Paint, and Masonry Shops and the Walter M. Strine, Sr. 2W9 Learning Center, which houses the library, the placement office, faculty and administrative offices, and classrooms for studies that include mathematics, communications. physical science, business and economics, and drafting.
- Alumni Hall is the home of the Clarence W. Schrenk Program in Horticulture, Landscaping, and Turf Management. The horticulture program maintains two greenhouses and many gardens, including the Sabia Garden adjacent to the McLean Technical Center. The complex of facilities supporting the Horticulture program is named in honor of Mrs. Dorrance H. Hamilton.
- Power Plant training is conducted in a shop maintenance building and the School’s power generating system, but most instruction and training is focused in the Lipp Educational Center, which includes classrooms, faculty offices, a computer laboratory, a resource room with a technical library, and three separate laboratories: the mechanical operations and industrial wiring laboratory includes programmable logic controllers with computer interface, residential wiring stations, and a turbine maintenance/overhaul station; the instrumentation laboratory includes level process stations, a dead weight tester, and a full range of calibration equipment; and the electrical theory laboratory includes Heathkit electronic trainers, motor control stations, motor-generator training stations, motor control boards, and oscilloscopes.
Computer Laboratory
The William L. McLean, Jr. Technical Center houses a technology classroom and the Walton H. Simpson ’32 Computer Science Center, a computer lab that is designed to introduce students to both computer operations/applications and computer-aided design (CAD).
The Library
The Library,
located in the Strine Learning Center, provides a collection of books and journals in each trade and technical area offered at Williamson, books and periodicals on general subjects, and computers with Internet access for Web-based research. When classes are in session, the library is open during the day, Monday through Friday, and selected evening hours; please consult the Librarian for specific hours of operation. The library is associated with the Delaware County Library System, providing convenient access to the holdings of all the public libraries in the county, including those of Delaware County Community College. As a member of ACCESS-PA, the library can easily receive, via interlibrary loan, items from hundreds of libraries across the Commonwealth.
School Store
Located online and on the first floor of Byers Hall, the School Store sells academic supplies, snack foods, Williamson apparel, and a variety of school souvenirs.
Housing
All students live in an on-campus dormitory supervised by an adult dormitory manager.
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