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This time it met in the Pennsylvania State House, or Independence Hall, as it is now called. It was in this building that the Declaration of Independence was signed. <div class="tei-figure1 float-left figure-floated smallfloatinline"> <img src="https://static.history.state.gov/buildings/3-pa-state-house.jpg" class="tei-graphic" title=""> <div class="tei-head1">Pennsylvania State House</div> </div> The Committee of Secret Correspondence met here from its establishment in 1775 until it was replaced by the Committee for Foreign Affairs on April 17, 1777, except for the brief time that Congress was in Baltimore. It was here, too, that the first diplomatic representative to the American Colonies, <span class="tei-persName">Conrad Alexandre Gérard</span> of France presented his letter of credence to Congress on August 6, 1778. The State House had been built for the provincial government, which for a half century previously had had no official building. Construction on the building began in 1732, and although the Assembly had met in the building as early as 1735, it was not completed until 1748. When completed, the building had a facade 107 feet in length connected by closed arcades, or piazzas, to wing buildings some 50 feet long. The following is a description of the building:</p> <p class="tei-p3"> <span class="tei-q2 blockquote">“The main building had a decked gable roof, balustraded between the chimneys and surmounted by a centrally located cupola.... The first floor contained two chambers about 40 feet square, separated by a spacious center hall about 20 feet wide.... The State House was not elegantly furnished. Chairs, tables, curtains, screens, and other items purchased for the building were never unduly expensive .... The building appears to have been heated originally by open fireplaces for which stoves were later substituted.”<span id="fnref:1.4.4.6.8.2.3"><a href="#fn:1.4.4.6.8.2.3" class="note" rel="footnote">13</a></span> </span> </p> <p class="tei-p3">In 1750 the Assembly directed that a tower be erected to contain a staircase and belfry. By 1753 the tower was completed and the State House bell (now called the Liberty Bell) was hung. This was the bell that was rung to announce the adoption of the <a href="/milestones/1776-1783/declaration">Declaration of Independence</a> on <span class="tei-date">July 8, 1776.</span> </p> <p class="tei-p3">There have been various alterations of the State House through the years. When the British occupied Philadelphia in 1777-1778, they damaged the State House by converting the first floor into a barracks and making the second floor into a hospital for wounded American prisoners. The old steeple had rotted and become so weak that it was taken down in 1781. A new one was built in 1828. Congress Hall was begun in 1787 and finished in 1789. The City Hall building was begun in 1789 and finished in 1791. These two halls formed part of the complex of which the State House was a part. From 1802 until 1828 Charles Wilson Peale used the Assembly Room and second floor of the State House for a museum and portrait gallery.</p> <p class="tei-p3">Beginning in 1828, there have been a series of restorations, continuing even at the present time. Since 1898 the State House has been a public shrine in Independence National Historical Park.</p> </div> <div class="footnotes"> <ol> <li class="footnote" id="fn:1.4.4.6.8.2.3" value="13"><span class="fn-content">Edward M. Riley, <span class="tei-hi2 font-italic italic">Independence National Historical Park, Philadelphia, Pa.,</span> National Park Service Historical Handbook Series No. 17 (Washington, 1954, revised 1956), pp. 4-5.</span><a href="#fnref:1.4.4.6.8.2.3" class="fn-back">↩</a></li> </ol> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div>  <div class="hsg-width-sidebar"> <aside class="hsg-aside--static"> <div data-template="toc:table-of-contents-sidebar" data-template-heading="false" data-template-highlight="true"> <div class="hsg-panel"> <div class="hsg-panel-heading"> <h2 class="hsg-sidebar-title">Table of Contents</h2> </div> <ul class="hsg-list-group"> <li class="hsg-list-group-item"><a href="/departmenthistory/buildings/intro" class="" id="toc-intro">Introduction</a></li> <li class="hsg-list-group-item"><a href="/departmenthistory/buildings/foreword" class="" id="toc-foreword">Original Foreword</a></li> <li class="hsg-list-group-item"><a href="/departmenthistory/buildings/section1" class="" id="toc-section1">The Period of the Continental Congress</a></li> <li class="hsg-list-group-item"><a href="/departmenthistory/buildings/section2" class="" id="toc-section2">Carpenters’ Hall, <span class="tei-placeName">Philadelphia</span> <br class="tei-lb"> <span class="tei-date">Sept. 5, 1774</span>—<span class="tei-date">Oct. 26, 1774</span> </a></li> <li class="hsg-list-group-item"><a href="/departmenthistory/buildings/section3" class="highlight" id="toc-section3">Pennsylvania State House (Independence Hall), <span class="tei-placeName">Philadelphia</span> <br class="tei-lb"> Intermittingly from <span class="tei-date">May 10, 1775</span> to <span class="tei-date">March 1, 1781</span> </a></li> <li class="hsg-list-group-item"><a href="/departmenthistory/buildings/section4" class="" id="toc-section4"> <span class="tei-persName">Henry Fite</span>’s House, <span class="tei-placeName">Baltimore</span> <br class="tei-lb"> <span class="tei-date">Dec. 20, 1776</span>—<span class="tei-date">Feb. 27, 1777</span> </a></li> <li class="hsg-list-group-item"><a href="/departmenthistory/buildings/section5" class="" id="toc-section5">Court House, <span class="tei-placeName">Lancaster</span> <br class="tei-lb"> <span class="tei-date">Sept. 27, 1777</span> </a></li> <li class="hsg-list-group-item"><a href="/departmenthistory/buildings/section6" class="" id="toc-section6">Court House, <span class="tei-placeName">York</span> <br class="tei-lb"> <span class="tei-date">Sept. 30, 1777</span>-<span class="tei-date">June 27, 1778</span> </a></li> <li class="hsg-list-group-item"><a href="/departmenthistory/buildings/section7" class="" id="toc-section7"> <span class="tei-placeName">13 South Sixth Street, Philadelphia</span> <br class="tei-lb"> <span class="tei-date">October 1781</span>-<span class="tei-date">June 1783</span> </a></li> <li class="hsg-list-group-item"><a href="/departmenthistory/buildings/section8" class="" id="toc-section8">Nassau Hall, <span class="tei-placeName">Princeton, N.J.</span> <br class="tei-lb"> <span class="tei-date">June 30, 1783</span>—<span class="tei-date">Nov. 4, 1783</span> </a></li> <li class="hsg-list-group-item"><a href="/departmenthistory/buildings/section9" class="" id="toc-section9">State House, <span class="tei-placeName">Annapolis</span> <br class="tei-lb"> <span class="tei-date">Nov. 26, 1783</span>—<span class="tei-date">Aug. 19, 1784</span> </a></li> <li class="hsg-list-group-item"><a href="/departmenthistory/buildings/section10" class="" id="toc-section10">French Arms Tavern, <span class="tei-placeName">Trenton</span> <br class="tei-lb"> <span class="tei-date">Nov. 1</span>—<span class="tei-date">Dec. 24, 1784</span> </a></li> <li class="hsg-list-group-item"><a href="/departmenthistory/buildings/section11" class="" id="toc-section11">Fraunces Tavern, <span class="tei-placeName">New York City</span> <br class="tei-lb"> <span class="tei-date">Jan. 11, 1785</span>—<span class="tei-date">Apr. 30, 1788</span> </a></li> <li class="hsg-list-group-item"><a href="/departmenthistory/buildings/section12" class="" id="toc-section12">First Location on Broadway, <span class="tei-placeName">New York City</span> <br class="tei-lb"> <span class="tei-date">May 1</span>—<span class="tei-date">Oct. 2, 1788</span> </a></li> <li class="hsg-list-group-item"><a href="/departmenthistory/buildings/section13" class="" id="toc-section13">Second Location on Broadway, <span class="tei-placeName">New York City</span> <br class="tei-lb"> <span class="tei-date">Oct. 2, 1788</span>—<span class="tei-date">Oct. 1790</span> </a></li> <li class="hsg-list-group-item"><a href="/departmenthistory/buildings/section14" class="" id="toc-section14"> <span class="tei-placeName">307 Market Street, Philadelphia</span> <br class="tei-lb"> <span class="tei-date">October 1790</span>—<span class="tei-date">April 1793</span> </a></li> <li class="hsg-list-group-item"><a href="/departmenthistory/buildings/section15" class="" id="toc-section15"> <span class="tei-placeName">287 Market Street, Philadelphia</span> <br class="tei-lb"> <span class="tei-date">April 1793</span>—<span class="tei-date">May 1794</span> </a></li> <li class="hsg-list-group-item"><a href="/departmenthistory/buildings/section16" class="" id="toc-section16">Sixth and Arch Streets, <span class="tei-placeName">Philadelphia</span> <br class="tei-lb"> <span class="tei-date">May 1794</span>—<span class="tei-date">October 1796</span> </a></li> <li class="hsg-list-group-item"><a href="/departmenthistory/buildings/section17" class="" id="toc-section17"> <span class="tei-placeName">North Street, Philadelphia</span> <br class="tei-lb"> <span class="tei-date">Oct. 29, 1796</span>—<span class="tei-date">Aug. 31, 1797</span> </a></li> <li class="hsg-list-group-item"><a href="/departmenthistory/buildings/section18" class="" id="toc-section18">State House, <span class="tei-placeName">Trenton</span> <br class="tei-lb"> <span class="tei-date">August</span>—<span class="tei-date">November 1797, 1798, 1799</span> </a></li> <li class="hsg-list-group-item"><a href="/departmenthistory/buildings/section19" class="" id="toc-section19"> <span class="tei-placeName">13 South Fifth Street, Philadelphia</span> <br class="tei-lb"> <span class="tei-date">November 1797</span>—<span class="tei-date">May 1800</span> </a></li> <li class="hsg-list-group-item"><a href="/departmenthistory/buildings/section20" class="" id="toc-section20">Treasury Department Building, <span class="tei-placeName">Washington</span> <br class="tei-lb"> <span class="tei-date">June</span>—<span class="tei-date">August 1800</span> </a></li> <li class="hsg-list-group-item"><a href="/departmenthistory/buildings/section21" class="" id="toc-section21">One of the “Six Buildings,” <span class="tei-placeName">Washington</span> <br class="tei-lb"> <span class="tei-date">September 1800</span>-<span class="tei-date">May 1801</span> </a></li> <li class="hsg-list-group-item"><a href="/departmenthistory/buildings/section22" class="" id="toc-section22">Public Building West of the <span class="tei-placeName">White House</span> <br class="tei-lb"> <span class="tei-date">May 1801</span>—<span class="tei-date">August 1814</span> </a></li> <li class="hsg-list-group-item"><a href="/departmenthistory/buildings/section23" class="" id="toc-section23"> <span class="tei-placeName">G Street Near Eighteenth Street</span> <br class="tei-lb"> <span class="tei-date">Sept. 1814</span>—<span class="tei-date">March 1816</span> </a></li> <li class="hsg-list-group-item"><a href="/departmenthistory/buildings/section24" class="" id="toc-section24"> <span class="tei-placeName">Rebuilt Public Building West of the White House</span> <br class="tei-lb"> <span class="tei-date">April 1816</span>—<span class="tei-date">August 1819</span> </a></li> <li class="hsg-list-group-item"><a href="/departmenthistory/buildings/section25" class="" id="toc-section25"> <span class="tei-placeName">Northeast Executive Building</span> <br class="tei-lb"> <span class="tei-date">August, September 1819</span>-<span class="tei-date">November 1866</span> </a></li> <li class="hsg-list-group-item"><a href="/departmenthistory/buildings/section26" class="" id="toc-section26"> <span class="tei-placeName">Washington City Orphan Asylum</span> <br class="tei-lb"> <span class="tei-date">November 1866</span>-<span class="tei-date">July 1875</span> </a></li> <li class="hsg-list-group-item"><a href="/departmenthistory/buildings/section27" class="" id="toc-section27"> <span class="tei-placeName">State, War, and Navy Building</span> <br class="tei-lb"> <span class="tei-date">July 1875</span>-<span class="tei-date">April 1947</span> </a></li> <li class="hsg-list-group-item"><a href="/departmenthistory/buildings/section28" class="" id="toc-section28"> <span class="tei-placeName">New State Building</span> <br class="tei-lb"> <span class="tei-date">April 1947</span>—present</a></li> <li class="hsg-list-group-item"><a href="/departmenthistory/buildings/section29" class="" id="toc-section29">Extended, remodeled New State Building</a></li> <li class="hsg-list-group-item"><a href="/departmenthistory/buildings/section30" class="" id="toc-section30">Appendix<br class="tei-lb"> Annex Buildings Occupied by the Department of State</a></li> <li class="hsg-list-group-item"><a href="/departmenthistory/buildings/section31" class="" id="toc-section31">Photo Credits</a></li> <li class="hsg-list-group-item"><a href="/departmenthistory/buildings/section32" class="" id="toc-section32">Publication Information</a></li> </ul> </div> </div> </aside> <aside id="sections" class="hsg-aside--section"> <div class="hsg-panel"> <div class="hsg-panel-heading"> <h2 class="hsg-sidebar-title">Department History</h2> </div> <ul class="hsg-list-group"> <li class="hsg-list-group-item"><a href="/departmenthistory/timeline"><span>Administrative Timeline</span></a></li> <li 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