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Independence Hall
| Site number: | 78 |
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| Type of site: | Cultural | |
| Date: | 1776-87 | |
| Date of Inscription: | 1979 | |
| Location: | North America, United States of America, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia | |
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| Description: | This building in Philadelphia acted as the site for both the signing of the Declaration of Independence (1776) as well as the United States’ Constitution (1787). These documents laid down the universal principles of freedom and democracy that are of deep-seated importance to American history and have deeply impacted law-makers worldwide. --WHMNet paraphrase from the description at WHC Site, where additional information is available. | |
| Independence Hall is a U.S. national landmark located inside Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on Chestnut Street between 5th and 6th Streets. Known primarily as the location where the Declaration of Independence was debated and adopted, the building was completed in 1753 as the Pennsylvania State House for the Province of Pennsylvania. It became the meeting place of the Second Continental Congress. The Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation, and United States Constitution were all signed at Independence Hall. The building is now part of the larger Independence National Historical Park and listed as a World Heritage Site. Independence Hall is a red brick building, built between 1732 and 1753, and designed in the Georgian style by Edmund Woolley and Andrew Hamilton, and built by Woolley. Its building was commissioned by the Pennsylvania colonial legislature and it was initially inhabited by the colonial government of Pennsylvania as their State House. Two smaller buildings adjoin Independence Hall: to the east is Old City Hall, and to the west is Congress Hall. These three buildings are together on a city block known as Independence Square, along with Philosophical Hall, the original home of the American Philosophical Society. The bell tower steeple of Independence Hall was the original home of the "Liberty Bell" and today it holds a "Centennial Bell" that was created for the United States Centennial Exposition in 1876. The original Liberty Bell, with the distinctive crack, is now on display across the street in the Liberty Bell Center. In 1976 Queen Elizabeth II of Great Britain visited Philadelphia and presented a gift to the American people of a replica Bicentennial Bell, which was cast in the same British foundry as the original. --Wikipedia. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License. | ||
| Source: | http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/78 | |
| Reference: | 1. UNESCO World Heritage Center, Site Page. | |