Campus Facilities
Williamson College of the Trades is located on Route 352, in Delaware County, Pennsylvania and is fourteen miles west of Philadelphia.
Campus Grounds
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 college’s buildings. (Williamson 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:
- Rowan Hall: administrative offices, student lounge, dining room, Health Services, and the chapel.
- Thirteen student dormitories: Byers Hall I & II (which also contains the Campus Store), C Cottage, Clemens, Derrickson, Eyre, George, Jenks, Longstreth, Smith, Strine, Townsend, and Watson.
- The Joseph L. and Marion M. Wesley Student Center, opened in 2023 offers three multi-purpose athletic courts, free-weight and cardio rooms, an indoor running track, esports, and additional activities and meeting rooms.
- 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 college, 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 Landscape Construction Management (LCM). The LCM program maintains 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 college’s power generating system. Most instruction and training are centered 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.
- 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).
Campus Technology
Williamson maintains an extensive information technology suite and infrastructure to support its educational and student life needs. Each academic and trade classroom is equipped with an integrated Smart Classroom suite. While maintaining several student computer laboratories across campus, every student also receives a laptop at no personal cost for use during their college tenure. Each student has access to private, secure file storage and personal cloud storage of 1TB through Office 365. Additionally, each student is issued a Williamson email account that he may continue to use beyond graduation.
For information regarding the college’s student technology policies, please see the Student Information Technology Handbook.
