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On the historic Chestnut Street in downtown Philadelphia, Independence Hall is one of the most important buildings in American history and a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The handsome Georgian-style brick structure, completed in 1753 as the Pennsylvania State House to serve as the seat of the colonial Pennsylvania government, took on its present extraordinary historic significance over the course of the American Revolution, when it became the meeting place of the Second Continental Congress and th...