. Rand, McNally & co.'s Handy guide to Philadelphia and environs, including Atlantic City and Cape May. ilding has been known and venerated since the foundationof the Republic. It was used for over a century by various publicoffices and societies, and underwent many minor alterations; but, ini897-9S, these were mostly cleared out, and the whole of the mainbuilding renovated and restored as nearly as possible to its originalcondition. It is henceforth to be a national monument of the birthof the RepubHc, and is open freely to the pubhc. The central build-ing, or old State House, whose tower is
. Rand, McNally & co.'s Handy guide to Philadelphia and environs, including Atlantic City and Cape May. ilding has been known and venerated since the foundationof the Republic. It was used for over a century by various publicoffices and societies, and underwent many minor alterations; but, ini897-9S, these were mostly cleared out, and the whole of the mainbuilding renovated and restored as nearly as possible to its originalcondition. It is henceforth to be a national monument of the birthof the RepubHc, and is open freely to the pubhc. The central build-ing, or old State House, whose tower is surmounted by a woodencupola built in 182S and containing a clock, is flanked by low openstructures leading on the east to the old Supreme Court House at thecorner of Ffth Street, and on the west to Congress Hall at the cornerof Sixth Street. The Supreme Court House was built in 1791, for the SupremeCourt of the United States, when it was supposed that this city wasto be the national capital. Other lesser courts were lodged here inearly times, and among the great jurists who have sat there are Jus^. INDEPENDtNCE HALL — Chestnut, between Fifth and Sixth Streets. A TOUR OF THE CITY. 43 tices John Jay, Oliver Ellsworth, Francis Hopkinson, WilHam Lewis,and Richard Peters. Upon the removal of the Supreme Court toWashington this building became the City Hall, and so remaineduntil recently. It is now occupied chiefly by patriotic societies. Congress Hall has even greater interest. Its site, before theRevolution, was occupied by a wooden shelter for visiting present building was completed in 1790, and until 1800 was occu-pied by the Congress of the Nation. Here Washington was inaugu-rated President, in 1793, for a second term, and John Adams asVice-President; and here Adams took the oath as President in 1797,and Jeflierson as Vice-President. After 1800 it was devoted to crim-inal courts, and became popularly known as the Slaughter House,on account of the many murder trial
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