U.S. National Historic Landmark District Contributing Property
Designated
October 15, 1966
Part of
Independence National Historical Park
Reference no.
66000683[2]
Location of Independence Hall in Philadelphia
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Independence Hall is a historic civic building in Philadelphia, where both the United States Declaration of Independence and the United States Constitution were debated and adopted by America's Founding Fathers. The structure forms the centerpiece of the Independence National Historical Park and was designated a World Heritage Site in 1979.[3]
The building was completed in 1753 as the Pennsylvania State House. It served as the first capitol of both the United States and of the Province and later the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. It was the principal meeting place of the Second Continental Congress from 1775 to 1781, and was the site of the Constitutional Convention, at which the U.S. Constitution, the longest-standing written and codified national constitution in the world, was ratified on June 21, 1788.[4]
A convention held in Independence Hall in 1915, presided over by former U.S. president William Howard Taft, marked the formal announcement of the formation of the League to Enforce Peace, which led to the League of Nations in 1920 and the United Nations in 1945, a quarter century later.[5]
^"Management Documents". National Park Service. Retrieved May 1, 2011.
^ ab"National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
^"Independence Hall". UNESCO World Heritage Centre. Retrieved December 14, 2020.
^Goodlatte says U.S. has the oldest working national constitution, Politifact Virginia website, September 22, 2014.
^New York Times: "League to Enforce Peace is Launched," June 18, 1915, accessed January 2, 2010
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