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Title Page: Welcome to Carpenters’ Hall built in 1770 off Chestnut Street in Historic downtown Philadelphia. One of the most important meeting places in American History Historical Information The Carpenters Company was founded in 1724 but had no meeting house of their own. After many years of meeting in rented rooms,They selected a building site a 100 feet away from Benjamin Franklin’s home. This would be the site of the current building designed by Robert Smith. They continued and fished the building in 1770. The First Continental Congress of the United Colonies of North America met here in 1774. The building has a long history as an assembly place and home to numerous tenants including the arts and sciences. The meeting hall …show more content…

The building wa based on the town halls of Scotland where Smith was born, and villas in Italy. The brick building was built by 150 men and women. Inside the building there is a place where all those involved in the construction are remembered. In the building there are still chairs from the First Continental Congress in 1724. The building has been renovated to it former glory as it was in 1770. Carpenters Hall is a two story 50 foot square building with 10 foot cutouts at each corner. The result is gem of Georgian Style architecture which is both a fitting memorial for Smith. It is principally borne by the exterior brick wall which are 13 inches thick. Supporting the first floor are two girders each 45 feet long and roughly squared off with an adze. The girders and most of the building’s other timber framing were of Eastern White Pine, which is hardly available today. The tile on the first floor is original, it was installed after the Civil War. A British Company named Minton Supplied the tile. Carpenters Company is mindful of their thrifty Quaker forebears, sawed the original yellow pine flooring into short lengths of the early wood flooring that were installed between the floor joists can be seen from the basement

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