Located in Independence National Historical Park in Old City, Independence Hall is just steps from the Liberty Bell Center, making it convenient to visit both landmarks in a morning or afternoon.

Independence Hall started as Pennsylvania’s statehouse. First commissioned in 1732, it took more than 20 years to build, not because it was so grand — though it was the grandest building in ...

Population growth eventually made this option unrealistic.In 1729, the Pennsylvania Assembly voted to appropriate money to build a state house.Independence Hall in Philadelphia was finished in 1753.

Thank you. I speak to you tonight from sacred ground in America. Independence Hall in philadelphia pennsylvania. This is where America made its declaration of independence to the world more than ...

Independence Hall was designed by attorney Andrew Hamilton in collaboration with master builder Edmund Woolley to house the Assembly of the Commonwealth (colony) of Pennsylvania. Begun in 1732 and ...