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Excerpt from Philadelphia to-Day, 1882: Being a Correct Guide to All the Public Buildings, Institutions, Railroads, and Places and Objects of Interest; With Illustrations and Diagrams of Theatres
Street, and occupies the north Side of Independence Square. It was commenced in 1729 and finished in 1734. The cost was or The two wings were erected in 1740. The building is most intimately associated in the American mind with the date 1776. In the cast room of the main building the second Continental Con gress met, and there, on the 4th of July, 1776, the Declaration of Independence was adopted, and from the steps, or a platform, on the south side of the building, it was publicly proclaimed to the multitude which had gathered at the joyful ringing of the bell in the steeple. That same bell (cast in 1753) which now, cracked and useless, but with its grand prophetic motto still intact, hangs in state from the ceiling Of the vestibule at the south entrance to the hall. It was cracked in 1835, while being tolled in memory of chief-justice Mar Shall, who died in Philadelphia, that year.
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