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Philadelphia Building(s) 22 sections, 17 items and 61 pictures

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Independence Visitor Center
Old City
Des visites gratuites sont possibles : les tickets peuvent être retirés le jour de la visite au Independence Visitor Center ou à l'avance au reservations.nps.gov/.

Liberty Bell Center (1)
Old City
The Liberty Bell is one of the most prominent symbols of the American Revolutionary War and an international icon of liberty and justice.

Independence Hall (9)
Pennsylvania State House
Chestnut Street between 5th & 6th Streets
Old City

between 1732 and 1756
L'Independence Hall ou Pennsylvania State House est le bâtiment à Philadelphie en Pennsylvanie où fut signée la Déclaration d'indépendance et fut adoptée la Constitution américaine.

Old City Hall
5th and Chestnut Streets
Old City
between 1790 and 1791
Old City Hall was Philadelphia's second city hall and served as the home of the United States Supreme Court between the years of 1791 and 1800.

Congress Hall (2)
6th and Chestnut Street
Old City
between 1787 and 1789
Congress Hall, a small joining two-story brick west wing to Independence Hall, was built in Georgian Revival style.

Philosophical Hall
427 Chestnut Street
Old City
For almost two decades after its reorganization in 1769, the American Philosophical Society had no home of its own.

State House Yard (1)
Between Chestnut and Walnut, 5th and 6th
Old City
The statue of Commodore John Barry, by sculptor Samuel Murray, sits in the State House Yard behind Independence Hall.

First Bank of the United States
116 South Third St
Old City
between 1795 and 1797
The First Bank of the United States was built by Samuel Blodgettt and James Windrim in in 1795-1797 at a cost of $110,168.05.

Second Bank of the United States
420 Chestnut Street
Old City
between 1819 and 1824
The Second Bank of the United States was chartered five years after the expiration of the First Bank of the United States under the administration of James Madison in 1816.

The Philadelphia Bank Building (1)
421 Chestnut Street
Old City
1857

Library Hall
105 South 5th Street
Old City
1790
Adjacent to the Second Bank is Library Hall, 105 South 5th Street. This 1959 reconstruction of the 1790 building was originally built for the Library Company of Philadelphia. It is now occupied by the library of the American Philosophical Society.

Carpenters' Hall
320 Chestnut Street
Old City
between 1770 and 1773
Carpenters Hall was designed by architect Robert Smith and built by the Carpenters' Company between 1770-1773.

Franklin Court (2)
316-322 Market Street
Old City
Franklin Court cuts through an entire city block on the former site of Benjamin Franklin's home at 316-322 Market Street.

Pembertone House
Old City

Fawcit House Site
Old City
1706

The Bourse
Old City
1895
The concept of the Bourse was brought to Philadelphia in 1890 by George E. Bartol, a prosperous Philadelphia grain and commodities exporter.

Signers Park (1)
5th & Chestnut Streets
Old City
The Signer, sculpted by Evangelos Frudakis in 1980, was dedicated in Signers Park or Norris Court on the former site of the Gilbert Stuart House in 1982 on the occasion of Philadelphia's Tercentenary.

City Hall
Gothic and neoclassical influences dominate the features of City Hall.

Christ Church
22-26 North 2nd St

between 1722 and 1744
Christ Church is an Episcopal church founded in 1695 by members of the Church of England, who built a small wooden church on the site by the next year.

Free Library of Philadelphia
between 1920 and 1927
In 1890, George S. Pepper, the uncle of the provost of the University of Pennsylvania, Dr. William Pepper, died. At the suggestion of Dr. Pepper, he had earmarked $225,000 of his estate to go towards the foundation of the Free Library of Philadelphia, which was established on February 18, 1891.

Franklin Institute
1934
Founded in honor of Benjamin Franklin, The Franklin Institute is a museum and one of the oldest and premier centers of science education and development in the United States.

Pennsylvania Grand Lodge Temple
1 N. Broad Street
between 1868 and 1873
The Pennsylvania Grand Lodge Temple is the center of Freemasonry in Pennsylvania. Its takes in hundreds of visitors every year who visit the ornate structure including its seven beautiful lodge rooms, where even today a number of Philadelphia lodges and the Grand Lodge conduct their meetings.

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