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Congress Hall, located in Philadelphia at the intersection of Chestnut and 6th Streets, served as the seat of the United States Congress from December 6, 1790, to May 14, 1800.
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 ...
Buildings surrounding the Mall include Congress Hall, Independence Hall, and Old City Hall to the south; the Philadelphia Bourse, the National Museum of American Jewish History, Christ Church Burial Ground, and the Philadelphia Mint to the east; the approach to the Benjamin Franklin Bridge to the north; and WHYY-TV, the Federal Reserve Bank of ...
Roughly bounded by Chestnut, 15th, Walnut, Sansom, and 21st Streets; also roughly bounded by the Center City West Historic District, S. 15th, Locust St., and S. Sydenham St. 39°56′45″N 75°10′20″W / 39.9458°N 75.1722°W / 39.9458; -75.1722 ( Center City West Commercial Historic
The properties are distributed across all of Philadelphia's 12 planning districts. East/West Oak Lane, Olney, Upper North and Lower North are included as North Philadelphia. Kensington, Near Northeast and Far Northeast are part of Northeast Philadelphia. Roxborough/Manayunk and Germantown/Chestnut Hill are a part of Northwest Philadelphia.
Chester Regent Historic District 2019 Chestnut Street East Commercial Historic District 2021 Christian Street/Black Doctors Row Historic District 2022 Conwell House Block Historic District 2022 Diamond Street Historic District: 1996: Drexel-Govett Historic District 2022 East Logan Street Historic District: 2010: F.D.R. Park Historic District: 2000
Independence Hall in the 1770s Benjamin Franklin in 1777 A 1796 map of Center City Philadelphia. The first exploration of the area by Europeans was in 1609, when a Dutch expedition led by Henry Hudson entered the Delaware River valley in search of the Northwest Passage.
Lower North Philadelphia is a section of Philadelphia that is immediately north of Center City and below Upper North Philadelphia and can be described as a section of Philadelphia that was designated as a "Model City" target, in hopes of overcoming poverty and blight through a federal funding program since 1966. Bounded by Spring Garden Street ...