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Independence Hall, officially known as the Pennsylvania State House, is a U.S. national landmark located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Known primarily as the location where the Declaration of Independence was approved, the building is now part of the larger Independence National Historical Park and listed as a World Heritage Site.
It was built between 1732 and 1753 and designed in the Georgian style by Edmund Woolley and Andrew Hamilton and inhabited by the colonial government of Pennsylvania as their State House. It was commissioned by the Pennsylvania colonial legislature and built on Chestnut Street between 5th and 6th Streets.
From 1775 to 1783, it served as the principal meeting place of the Second Continental Congress. The Declaration of Independence was approved there on July 4, 1776, though it had actually been voted for two days earlier and read aloud in the area now known as Independence Square.
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