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  2. Philadelphia City Hall - Wikipedia

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    [45] Philadelphia City Hall was occupied by the mayor beginning in 1889 [2] and the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania beginning in 1891, [3] and the building was topped out in 1894. [1] City Hall was the tallest habitable building in the world until 1908 when surpassed by the Singer Building.

  3. File:Philadelphia City Hall, aerial view, cropped.png - Wikipedia

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    : Philadelphia city hall.jpg - cropped close on entire building to enlarge the thumbnail image in the Philadelphia article infobox, at the same ratio as its opposing image; saved as an uncompressed PNG file from the original JPG file

  4. Timeline of Philadelphia - Wikipedia

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    Philadelphia City Hall built; 1902 Automat eatery in business. Corn Exchange National Bank building constructed. [61] 1903 – Textile strike. [48] 1905 – City Club of Philadelphia chartered. [62] 1907 Broad Street Subway begins operation. March 7: Market Street Subway begins operation. 1908 - Celebration of the 225th anniversary of the ...

  5. Old City Hall (Philadelphia) - Wikipedia

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    Originally intended as Philadelphia's City Hall, it housed the U.S. Supreme Court from the completion of its construction in 1791 until 1800, when the national capital was moved to Washington, D.C. Three chief justices, John Jay ( Jay Court ), John Rutledge ( Rutledge Court ), and Oliver Ellsworth ( Ellsworth Court ), officiated the Supreme ...

  6. List of Philadelphia neighborhoods - Wikipedia

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    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.

  7. PSFS Building - Wikipedia

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    The skyscraper is topped by a red neon sign with the PSFS initials. Visible for 20 miles (32 km), the sign has become a Philadelphia icon. In the 1980s, the Philadelphia Savings Fund Society lost millions. In 1992, the bank and its building were seized by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC). That same year, the skyscraper was 85 ...

  8. House of the Day: Jack Nicholson's A-List Aspen Mansion

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    See pictures of Nicholson's former Malibu home below. %Gallery-135219% Clearly, neither the sale of his Malibu manse or the listing of his Aspen home will render the star homeless.

  9. National Register of Historic Places listings in Center City ...

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    This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Center City in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. The locations of National Register properties and districts for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below, may be seen in an online map.