In January and February, you can visit Congress Hall at your own pace without a guided program. This is where the US Congress met from 1790 to 1800 when Philadelphia was the temporary national capital ...

The Declaration of Independence (1776) and the Constitution of the United States (1787) were both signed in this building in Philadelphia ... housed offices and connecting passageways; Congress Hall, ...

Carpenters’ Hall has been celebrating the 250th anniversary of the First Continental Congress, with its eye on 2026, too.

One of Philadelphia’s oldest professional guilds is celebrating its 300th anniversary. In that time, the Carpenters’ Company ...

And the Constitution is spread out below so we don’t miss the point that we are all in communion with those sacrifices. Once, ...

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Two churches, across the centuries. Generations after their birth in this nation first envisioned in Philadelphia, both ...

He ran for office in 2018 because he thought there were “too many jerks” in Congress and he would ... comes from the western Philadelphia region known as “the mushroom capital of the world.” ...

This Philadelphia tour technically isn't free ... Some of the sights covered include Carpenters' Hall, Independence Hall, Congress Hall, Christ Church, Ben Franklin's burial site and City Tavern.

Today, the museum resides in Memorial Hall, which served as the art gallery for the 1876 Centennial International Exhibition. [Read: The Best Philadelphia ... Reagan and Congress to disseminate ...

Less than a mile south, past Independence Hall, Mother Bethel ... of the Continental Congress. But then he sided with the loyalists. When the British occupied Philadelphia in 1777, the rector ...