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  2. 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

  3. 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.

  4. Alexander Milne Calder - Wikipedia

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    Alexander Milne Calder (August 23, 1846 – June 4, 1923) (MILL-nee) was a Scottish American sculptor best known for the architectural sculpture of Philadelphia City Hall. [1] Both his son, Alexander Stirling Calder, and grandson, Alexander Calder, became significant sculptors in the 20th century.

  5. Birch's Views of Philadelphia - Wikipedia

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    Martin P. Snyder, "Birch's Philadelphia Views: New Discoveries," Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, vol. 88 (1964), pp. 164–173. S. Robert Teitelman, Birch's Views of Philadelphia: a reduced facsimile of 'The City of Philadelphia-- as it appeared in the Year 1800': with photographs of the sites in 1960 & 1982.

  6. 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 ...

  7. 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 ...

  8. File:Philadelphia city hall.jpg - Wikipedia

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  9. List of tourist attractions in Philadelphia - Wikipedia

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    Liberty Bell at Independence National Historical Park at 143 S. 3rd Street Elfreth's Alley in Old City Merchants' Exchange at 143 S. Third Street. American Philosophical Society Hall; Belmont Mansion; Benjamin Franklin National Memorial; Betsy Ross House; Carpenters' Hall; Colonial Germantown Historic District; Congress Hall; Ebenezer Maxwell House