Philadelphia City Hall

The Philadelphia City Hall is the city hall of the city of Philadelphia in Pennsylvania. It is situated in the Penn Square, where the two main streets of the historical city, the Broad Street and Market Street, cross at right angles. Thus, it is the geographical center of the historic city center.

The building was from 1871 to 1901 in the Victorian style as The New Public Buildings: built by the architect John McArthur, Jr. ( German the new public building). The clock tower on the north side is 167.03 m ( 548 ft) high, making it the tallest brick building in the world. On the top is a statue of the founder colony of Pennsylvania, William Penn.

The City Hall was the tallest office building in the world when it opened, but was surpassed in 1908 by the Singer Building in New York City. It remained the tallest building in Pennsylvania until the completion of the Gulf Tower in Pittsburgh in 1932 and in Philadelphia until the construction of One Liberty Place 1984-87, which was the first skyscraper in the city the unofficial agreement broke that no building should be higher than the town hall.

In 2005, the Philadelphia City Hall was taken by the American Society of Civil Engineers in the List of Historic Civil Engineering Landmarks.