Philadelphia City Hall

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Philadelphia City Hall (2019)
Location in the historic city center.

The Philadelphia City Hall , the City Hall of the city of Philadelphia in the US -Bundesstaat Pennsylvania . It stands in the middle of Penn Square, where the city's two historic main streets, Broad Street and Market Street, intersect at right angles. It thus forms the geographical center of the historic city center.

The building was from 1871 to 1901 in the Victorian style as The New Public Buildings (German: the new public buildings ) by the architect John McArthur, Jr. built. The clock tower on the north side is 167.03 m (548 feet) high, making it the tallest brick building in the world. On top of it stands an eleven-meter-high statue of the founder of the Pennsylvania colony, William Penn .

City Hall was the tallest office building in the world when it opened, but was surpassed by the Singer Building in New York City as early as 1908 . It remained the tallest building in Pennsylvania until the completion of the Gulf Tower in Pittsburgh in 1932 and in Philadelphia until the construction of One Liberty Place 1984-87, which was the first high-rise in the city to break the unofficial agreement that no building should be taller than City Hall .

The City Hall has been a National Historic Landmark since December 1976 and is listed as a building on the National Register of Historic Places . In 2005 the Philadelphia City Hall was added to the List of Historic Civil Engineering Landmarks by the American Society of Civil Engineers .

Web links

Commons : Philadelphia City Hall  - collection of pictures, videos, and audio files

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Listing of National Historic Landmarks by State: Pennsylvania. National Park Service , accessed February 13, 2020.
    Philadelphia City Hall on the National Register of Historic Places , accessed February 13, 2020.

Coordinates: 39 ° 57 ′ 8.1 ″  N , 75 ° 9 ′ 50 ″  W.