Modern Federal · City halls

Street-level view of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania's, iconic City Hall, above which stands perhaps the city's best-known landmark, a statue of Pennsylvania founder and Philadelphia planner William Penn. Most everybody in town calls it, simply, the "Billy Penn statue." The bronze statue, by Alexander Milne Calder, was installed in 1894

Pennsylvania · 1850–1939

Street-level view of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania's, iconic City Hall, above which stands perhaps the city's best-known landmark, a statue of Pennsylvania founder and Philadelphia planner William Penn. Most everybody in town calls it, simply, the "Billy Penn statue." The bronze statue, by Alexander Milne Calder, was installed in 1894, Pennsylvania, 1850–1939
Street-level view of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania's, iconic City Hall, above which stands perhaps the city's best-known landmark, a statue of Pennsylvania founder and Philadelphia planner William Penn. Most everybody in town calls it, simply, the "Billy Penn statue." The bronze statue, by Alexander Milne Calder, was installed in 1894, Pennsylvania, 1850–1939. City halls — Modern Federal Architecture, from the Library of Congress record.

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