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Philadelphia City Hall under construction in 1881. The building was designed by Scottish-born architect John McArthur Jr. and Thomas Ustick Walter [ 13] in the Second Empire style, and was constructed from 1871 to 1901 at a cost of $24 million. City Hall's tower was completed by 1894, [ 1] although the interior was not finished until 1901.
Near Northeast Philadelphia, is a section of the city of Philadelphia. When combined with the Far Northeast, to be "Northeast Philadelphia", the 2000 Census shows that the combined area has a sizable percentage of the city's 1.547 million people [19] — a population of between 300,000 and 450,000, depending on how the area is defined.
Independence Hall is a historic civic building in Philadelphia, where both the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States were debated and adopted by the Founding Fathers of the United States. The structure, which is the centerpiece of Independence National Historical Park, was designated a World Heritage Site in 1979.
Carpenters' Hall. / 39.9481; -75.1472. Carpenters' Hall, in Independence National Historical Park in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, is the official birthplace of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and a key meeting place in the early history of the United States. Completed in 1775, [4] the two-story brick meeting hall was built for and still ...
South Broad Street, looking towards Philadelphia City Hall, c. 1895 Armistice Day on Broad Street in 1918 Broad Street at night along the Avenue of the Arts in 2005 North Broad Street, looking towards City Hall in 2009 Broad Street's northern terminus on the border of Philadelphia and Cheltenham Township Philadelphia City Hall seen from North Broad Street in 2012 Broad Street in the Cecil B ...
Center City at night in May 2007 Logan Circle in 2011 Philadelphia City Hall at night in December 2012. Among Center City's neighborhoods and districts are Penn's Landing, Old City, Society Hill, South Street, Washington Square West, Market East, Chinatown, Logan Square, the Museum District (located along the Benjamin Franklin Parkway), Rittenhouse Square, Fitler Square, the Avenue of the Arts ...
City Hall station is a SEPTA subway station in Philadelphia. Located in Center City underneath City Hall, it serves the Broad Street Line. It is the busiest station on the line, serving 57,000 passengers daily. [ 2 ] City Hall station is served by local, express, and special "Sport Express" trains. Entrances are located on the east and west ...
History of Philadelphia. A 1752 map of Philadelphia. The city of Philadelphia was founded and incorporated in 1682 by William Penn in the English Crown Province of Pennsylvania between the Delaware and Schuylkill rivers. Before then, the area was inhabited by the Lenape people. Philadelphia quickly grew into an important colonial city and ...