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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.
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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 ...
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.
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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.