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Articles TK on Friday night


  • The clocks
  • William Penn statue
  • John McArthur: The architect
  • The art of City Hall: A tour of ten pieces

    This land at the city center has had many lives: as a parade ground for George Washington's troops and a public gallows, as the nation's first municipal waterworks and a field of green called Center Square, one of five city parks envisioned by William Penn. In January of 1901, three decades after construction began, City Hall -- a project compared to the raising of a medieval cathedral -- was officially "delivered" to the citizens of Philadelphia. Now, as City Hall turns 100, the city's attention turns to the architectural wonder Walt Whitman described as "a majestic and lovely show there in the moonlight."