Carpenters' Hall
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Carpenters' Hall, in Independence National Historical Park in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, is the official birthplace of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and a key meeting place in the early history of the United States. Completed in 1775, the two-story brick meeting hall was built for and still privately owned by the Carpenters' Company of the City and County of Philadelphia, the country's oldest extant craft guild.
Carpenters' Hall in May 2015
An 1891 illustration of Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia
Carpeneters' Company frontispiece
Carpenters' Hall
Independence National Historical Park
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Independence National Historical Park is a federally protected historic district in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania that preserves several sites associated with the American Revolution and the nation's founding history. Administered by the National Park Service, the 55-acre (22 ha) park comprises many of Philadelphia's most-visited historic sites within the Old City and Society Hill neighborhoods. The park has been nicknamed "America's most historic square mile" because of its abundance of historic landmarks.
The Liberty Bell (foreground) and Independence Hall (background) at Independence National Historical park
Scene at the Signing of the Constitution of the United States, a 1940 portrait by Howard Chandler Christy
The President's House, which served as the presidential mansion of George Washington, the nation's first president, from 1790 to 1797, and then for John Adams, the nation's second president, from 1797–1800
Independence Hall, the iconic Philadelphia building where the Founding Fathers unanimously adopted the U.S. Declaration of Independence and appointed George Washington as commander of the Continental Army in a bold but risky effort to secure independence from Britain's colonial governance