Independence Hall in Philadelphia was built for the Pennsylvania colonial legislature between 1732 and 1753, according to the text. The infobox credits Edmund Woolley for original drafts and William Strickland for the 1828 steeple, while the text also names Andrew Hamilton as co-designer. Both give the style as Georgian.
The red brick building has a central block with arcaded hyphens linking two wings, on a rubble stone foundation with brick walls 22 to 23 inches thick. The steeple tip reaches 168 feet 7 inches (51.4 m). The original wooden steeple was removed in 1781, and the wings were replaced around 1812, then rebuilt as replicas in 1898.
The Assembly Room, where the Declaration and Constitution were signed, was finished in a mid-20th-century reconstruction in 1965. The text gives conflicting dates for the Mills wings. The National Park Service manages it, and visitors pass security screening.
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