Thursday, September 19, 2024

Topped By William Penn

Philadelphia's beautiful City Hall building was located a block from our hotel.  It's beautiful day or night.

According to Wikipedia, it was "built using brick, white marble and limestone, Philadelphia City Hall is the world's largest free-standing masonry building and was the world's tallest habitable building upon its completion in 1894. 

At 548 feet, 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. It was the tallest in Philadelphia until 1986 when the construction of One Liberty Place surpassed it, ending the informal gentlemen's agreement that had limited the height of buildings in the city to no higher than the Penn statue.
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2015: Engine House No. 6
2014: To Me, You Are Perfect
2013: View From A Kansas Rest Area
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