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2. William Penn (Calder) - Wikipedia

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   William Penn is a bronze statue of William Penn, the founder of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, by Alexander Milne Calder. [1] It is located atop the Philadelphia City Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was installed in 1894. It was cast in fourteen sections, and took almost two years to finish.

3. Philadelphia City Hall - Wikipedia

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   At 548 ft (167 m), including the statue of city founder William Penn atop its tower, City Hall was the tallest habitable building in the world from 1894 to 1908. It remained the tallest in Pennsylvania until it was surpassed in 1932 by the Gulf Tower in Pittsburgh ; it is now the 16th tallest.

4. All Wars Memorial to Colored Soldiers and Sailors - Wikipedia

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   Applying more pressure, W. E. Garrett Gilmore of the Fidelity-Philadelphia Trust Company, owner of an apartment house facing Fitler Square, appealed to the Art Jury in a March 15, 1934 letter: "At the present time we have some very desirable tenants living in these apartments, and we feel that such a statue opposite the apartments would cause ...

5. Statue of Matthias W. Baldwin - Wikipedia

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   [3] [18] A second move occurred in 1936, [19] and today the statue is located at City Hall's North Plaza, near Broad Street and Market Street. [3] Around June 10, 2020, [note 3] during the George Floyd protests in Philadelphia, the statue was defaced with paint, with the words "colonizer" and "murderer" spray painted on its pedestal. [22]

6. Benjamin Franklin Parkway - Wikipedia

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   The route was determined by an axis drawn from Philadelphia City Hall to a fixed point on the hill that William Penn called "Fairmount", now the site of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. [3] The Champs-Élysées terminates at the Arc de Triomphe, and the Parkway's terminating at the Art Museum gives the notion of "a slice of Paris in Philadelphia ...

7. Aspiring runners, here’s how to register for the New York ...

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   The 2024 New York City Marathon will take place on Sunday, November 3